Wrong group and permissions on floppy device special nodes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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udev (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: udev
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
udev:
Installed: 117-8
Candidate: 117-8
Version table:
*** 117-8 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Group and group permissions for special nodes for floppy devices do not match that of the initial floppy device node. The initial floppy device node has a group of floppy and group permissions allow read/write. Special nodes for floppy devices have a group of disk and group permissions of read-only. Group and group permissions should be consistent to allow for fomatting floppy disks of various capacities.
The following output from ls shows the permissions for floppy device nodes on my system:
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 84 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1040
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 88 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1120
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 28 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1440
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 124 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1600
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 44 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1680
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 60 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1722
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 76 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1743
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 96 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1760
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 116 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1840
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 100 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u1920
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 12 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u360
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 16 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u720
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 120 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u800
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 52 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u820
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 68 2008-08-23 08:01 /dev/fd0u830
Confirmed, but relatively low importance since not many people use those devices nowadays