[K12OSN] smbldap - adding ldap users to local groups

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:26 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> > > Ubuntu (maybe CentOS, I'm not sure) automatically assign users to the cdrom group (and certain other groups) if you create the users as a "Desktop User" or something like that.  If you want to check your system and see if it's this way, do ls -al /dev/cdrom and see if it's readable by all.  Mine isn't.
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> > RHELv5 (ES - Server install)
> > 
> > # ls -l /dev/cdrom
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 19 11:19 /dev/cdrom -> hda
> > 
> > Fedora Core 6
> > 
> > # ls -l /dev/cdrom
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 16 08:56 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
> > 
> > These are 'out of the box' configurations
> > 
> > Craig
> 
> I think symbolic links always have 777 permissions.  See what the permissions are on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc on those machines.
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I agree - that totally misses my point about udev

see my reply to another fork in this thread coming shortly

Craig