Bug 17260

Summary: /dev/md* wrong permissions/group
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: David Thompson <thomas>
Component: devAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description David Thompson 2000-09-05 18:20:24 UTC
The raidtools-0.90-6 rpm (and previous) installs its devices with different
permissions than the scsi and ide devices.  I.e.

brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/hda
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/hda1

vs.

brw-------    1 root     root       9,   0 Feb  7  2000 /dev/md0
brw-------    1 root     root       9,   1 Feb  7  2000 /dev/md1

So, whenever we want to back up an md device we have to go in and chown the
devices to be the same as the hd/sd disks (we do backups as a group disk
user).

Please update the RPM to install the md devices with the same permissions
as the other devices on which one puts file systems.  In a large
installation like ours, the current scheme is a hassle.

Thanks

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Dave Thompson  <thomas.edu>

Associate Researcher                    Department of Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison         http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~thomas
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Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-09-06 20:04:04 UTC
The md devices are being moved into the dev package.  The permissions in the dev
package in Raw Hide (ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/rawhide/) are consistent. 
Thanks!