On 2/10/06, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> channelled: > The proposed change to devmapper changes the permissions for all block > devices, doesn't it ? Whereas the other debian defaults vary from one > kind of device to another. For example, floppies are g+w floppy.
The change to devmapper is inconsistent in the context of many groups of machines. It's also inconsistent over time on many single machines. > For changing the `default' by changing the permissions at device > creation time at the very least introduces a race, where the device > briefly has the default permissions; if the defaults are maximally > restrictive then this is OK. The debian defaults grant permission to an empty group -- one which by default has no users -- this is maximally restrictive. -- Raul
