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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next prev parent 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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