Tape drive permission

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#1

I have added a tape drive to a SuSE 10.3 system to allow users to backup
databases. When I first tried to use the tape drive I found it was owned
by root with a group of disk and permissions of 660. I changed the
permissions to 666 to allow everyone access. For a few days of the tape
drive was assessable by the users. Then today a user was not able to
access the tape drive. I found the permissions had been changed back to
660. It seems some system program changed the permissions back. How do I
inform the system to allow all users to access the tape drive?

Ted

#2

Try adding a line specifying the owner and permissions ot /etc/permissions.local, then run SuSEconfig from the command line. There are comments there to guide you.

I don’t think udev controls the permissions in 10.3 otherwise a udev rule is needed.

#3

> I don’t think udev controls the permissions in 10.3 otherwise a udev
> rule is needed.
>
I do see that there is a /etc/udev directory and in the rules files I
found “TAPE” listed several times. It seems SuSE 10.3 may indeed use
udev to control the tape permissions.

:frowning: Now I will hae to try to figure out how udev and its rule language work.

Ted