Re: [Cooker] Very strange permissions change on /dev/*

[R.I.P. Deaddog]

That sounds reasonable, who would want remote users to access all those
devices?

Abel Cheung


On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> This was brought to my attention by one Usent postig; I must admit I never
> before noticed it and IIRC it does not happen on other Uices.
> 
> When user logs in, owner of some /dev/* files are change to this
> user. I do not mean ttys (this is normal) but audio/video/floppy/CDs
> nodes. If another user logs in at the same time, owner remains
> unchanged; when user logs out, owner is reverted to root.