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[Buddy Coffey <bcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan Glasoe wrote:
> On Monday 14 November 2005 10:21 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>   
> > Is your /usr/bin/vmware setuid root? Which version of VMware are you
> > running?
> >
> > I think I might have made /usr/bin/vmware setuid root so I could access
> > raw disks without having to change _their_ modes.
> >
> >
> > Randall Schulz
> >     
>
> SUSE 9.3 with almost all current updates applied, VMware 5.0.0 build 13124 
> and rkhunter 1.2.7 but no secchk.
>
> ~> l /usr/bin/vmware
> -rwsr-xr-x  1 root trusted 4714 2005-03-23 05:56 /usr/bin/vmware*
>
> No raw disks under VMware, yet. No permissions problems.
>
> Stan
>
>   
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