owner changes!!!!

sachin0178 · 01-28-2006, 01:27 PM

Hi,

When i login as user, the owner of the /dev/fd0 changes automatically from root to the user. Can anybody pls tell why is it doing like this??

Here is whats happening:

When i login as root, then ll /dev/fd0 shows:

brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Sep 15 2003 /dev/fd0

Then if i login as user(sachin), on another terminal, then ll /dev/fd0 shows:

brw-rw---- 1 sachin floppy 2, 0 Sep 15 2003 /dev/fd0

Regds,
Sachin

Brian1 · 01-28-2006, 01:49 PM

Probably based on info in your /etc/fstab file defines it.

Brian1

sachin0178 · 01-28-2006, 02:01 PM

Tnx for replying Brian, but what in fstab is causing it to change and how to stop it?? My /etc/fstab looks like:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Regds,
Sachin

gilead · 01-28-2006, 02:23 PM

You have several Redhat based systems listed for your distros (RH9, Fedora, RHEL). These all use PAM and according to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...m-console.html, PAM can change ownership of some devices at login time. It may be that your PAM setup is configured to do this...

Brian1 · 01-28-2006, 02:46 PM

never thought it could be an issue but try removing the owner an or kudzu. Not sure if either will make a difference. If you stop the service kudzu it might do it as well ' service kudzu stop '. I agree with Steve and look at Pam as well.