Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757323AbZIQT0G (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752507AbZIQT0E (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:04 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f199.google.com ([209.85.210.199]:33682 "EHLO mail-yx0-f199.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751715AbZIQT0E convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:04 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 467 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:04 EDT MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090917185306.GA28635@elte.hu> References: <20090917125759.GA4045@kroah.com> <20090917185306.GA28635@elte.hu> From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:18:05 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 20 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 20:53, Ingo Molnar wrote: > I've reproduced a bug with the following .config options: > >  CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y >  CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > > /dev/null and /dev/zero are not read/writable to ordinary users, > breaking normal bootup and login: Udev should run long before some ordinary/non-root user can login, and apply the permissions as it always does. It's known to work on Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu. What kind of system/environment/setup is that where you see this? Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/