On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:54, Michael Reincke wrote:
> i've some trouble with devfs and the permission on my SCSI-tape drive:
>
> I'm using Linux-Kernel 2.4.7 and devfsd 1.3.11-7 from unstable Debian.
Firstly, reporting a bug against an ancient version of a package usually
doesn't gain anything (the current version is 1.3.21-1).
Secondly reporting bugs in Debian packages to the upstream maintainer isn't
the best thing to do, particularly in the case of devfsd (Richard and I don't
always agree on some of the details, and I'm sure he doesn't want to hear
about things that I broke).
There were some bugs in the default perms file in older versions of my
package which gave results similar to what you see. If you install the
latest devfsd (which is required for recent kernels incidentally) then you'll
get a new perms file (automatically installed if you made no changes to your
old file) which should solve this.
Also kernel 2.4.7 has a security hole...
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