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From: Rafael Bugajewski <rb@bugajewski.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  odd /dev/null beharvior
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:29:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602181829.15301.rb@bugajewski.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20060218T174357-39@post.gmane.org>

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18. Februar 2006 17:46, James:

> /dev/null is acting weird. The permissions have recently changes
> on a system I sync regularly. I can change the permissions back
> to 666, but every time the system reboots, dev null resets to:
> crw-rw----  1 root 1, 3 Jan 20 10:05 /dev/null
>
> How to I make permanent changes so that /dev/null is 666 again?
>
> Surely this is not part of some security issue that I missed?

Hi James,

I hope the following two lines will help you:

rafael@hoppsie / $ grep null /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
KERNEL=="null",         NAME="%k", MODE="0666"

I think it's rather a misconfiguration than a security issue.

Greets,

Rafael Bugajewski

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-18 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-18 16:46 [gentoo-user] odd /dev/null beharvior James
2006-02-18 17:29 ` Rafael Bugajewski [this message]
2006-02-18 21:36 ` Christopher Cowart
2006-02-21  2:20   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-02-21  2:30   ` James
2006-02-21 23:50     ` Christopher Cowart
2006-02-22  2:39       ` James
2006-02-24 12:02         ` Christopher Cowart

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