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[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <7369 at hlborl.UUCP> h_les at hlborl.UUCP (les brown) writes:

| When I encountered that little hitch, I thought it obvious to change
| the permissions on my DOS partition (which worked fine).  Am I
| compromising something somewhere?  I do *all* my DOS stuff in and
| from my DOS partition.

  The typical DOS partition is tied to permissions on /dev/hd00. If you
run a multiuser system with any non-tructed users, do not chaange
permissions on hd00. Instead, use mknod to create another node with the
same major and minor numbers, then give it a new owner and 600
permissions for that user.

  Disclamer: I thought this up myself, none of the blame or credit goes
to SCO.
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	bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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