rpm --setperms

[James Wilkinson]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> Also /dev/hdd is the raw device on the secondary ide slave.  It is not a 
> filesystem and cannot be accessed by anything AFAIK except using fdisk 
> (and associates), or dd tools on it.  It cannot even be mounted.

Unless /dev/hdd happens to be a CD drive.

> You should not be changing permissions on the /dev devices, but rather 
> on the filesystems that are accessible when those devices are mounted.

It's arguable that it's better to relax the permissions on a CD drive
and run cdparanoia (etc.) as a normal user, than to keep it locked up
tight and have to run cdparanoia as root...

HTH,

James.

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