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- From: ahalim@ics.uci.edu
- Subject: mysterious permission mode change
- Message-ID: <9212150931.aa11896@q2.ics.uci.edu>
- Lines: 7
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:31:29 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
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- I have noticed that after changing the permission bits for a char device
- [like /dev/ttyb] to 666 from 600, the systems will turn the mode back
- to 600 automatically. This is quite strange and annoying.
- Is this somekind of security feature of SunOS (4.1.2) or something else?
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- /aha
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