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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:09 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I notice that access permissions of '/dev/*' devices are reset to
> defaults when my systems reboot, losing access for ordinary users where
> I may have set it manually (i.e., /dev/ttyS* for 'minicom', etc). I
> conjecture this is an effect ("feature"?) of the '/dev' filesystem since
> such permission changes used to be persistent, but that's only a guess.
> 
> Q1: How can I define these permissions so they receive my new settings
> on reboot, instead of the system defaults?
> 
> Q2: How can I add new devices to those created on reboot? I could add
> 'mknod' lines to rc.local, or similar, but is there a less "clunky" way
> to do it?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - Mills
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