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From: michael@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (New idea!)
Message-ID: <1oe0pd$mu@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 20 Mar 93 02:50:21 GMT
References: <1993Mar19.074044.18995@gmd.de>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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In article <1993Mar19.074044.18995@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)  
writes:
> Why would *you* want to modify *default* protections in a system?

Not me, but I can imagine sysadmins that would like to decide for themselves  
who is allowed to acces their tape unit.  One possible solution would be to do  
a chmod from rc.local during boot.  This would solve the problems I think.