On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:09:37PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:41:17PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> >> > Which procedure? You seem to know something I don't know. ("Overwrite"
> >> > means in my context: chmod of static devices or a MODE setting in the
> >> > udev config)
> >> A chown/chmod of the device is not scalable or practical.
> >
> > You recreate the complete /dev?
>
> lvcreate/vgchange and related commands will create the devices with
> the default ownership, and hence require *manual* correction after
> their creation. Thus chown/chmod are not practical for anything but
> tiny and unchanging installations.
Hu? lvcreate don't create static devices.
>
> >> a new LV, the permissions will be wrong. If I run vgchange, the
> >> permissions will be wrong. This is not a solution.
> >
> > And I don't speak about libdevmapper managed device.
>
> Please could you clarify? What *are* you speaking about. I'm
> referring to the fact that when I create or change an LVM LV, I have
> to manually correct the permissions (on both static and udev managed
> systems).
Lets quote myself:
| means in my context: chmod of static devices or a MODE setting in the
| udev config)
This does not qualify dm devices.
> > SUBSYSTEM=="block", MODE="0600"
>
> That changes the default permissions for block devices, but this is
> not what I meant.
>
> How do I get device-mapper devices to be created by udev, along with
> the related symlinks? The rule you suggest above does not in any way
> affect the *device-mapper* device permissions or ownership, which is
> the problem at hand:
KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/sbin/dmsetup info -c
--noopencount --noheadings -o name -j %M -m %m", SYMLINK="disk/by-name/%c"
as shipped by suse.
> Also, you have not addressed the case where udev is not in use: the
> ownership and permissions are still wrong.
The settings are a secure default.
Anyway, what are the problems with a default of 666? It fixes any of the
problems.
Bastian
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