Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

< Previous Next >
Re: [SLE] Busybody-Ware Changing SetUID Root Program File Modes
  • From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:52:25 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <437F11F0.4010907@xxxxxxxxxx>
Buddy Coffey wrote:

> I am having the same problems as Randall, but only with SuSE 10.0. In
> SuSE 9.1 (where I also run vmware), the permissions for my raw disks
> (/dev/hda) stay set, whereas in SuSE 10.0, the permissions are reset at
> boot time. It appears that something is running mknod during boot,
> because I have a new timestamp on the /dev entries that corresponds to
> the boot time.
>
> Buddy Coffey
> Advanced Electromagnetics
>

I know it's kind of late but your problem is not related to his. Your
problem is due to the udev stuff in SuSE-10.0. The /dev directory gets
built from scratch every time you boot. The permissions on the block
devices are set in the file

/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="block", GROUP="disk", MODE="0640"

Mark

< Previous Next >