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Date: Mon,  9 Nov 2009 22:44:43 -0700
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] group ownership for shared devices
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I have a CPU server running as 'glenda' that has a DVD drive. I want to
make that DVD drive available to various terminals on the network. But I
don't want to put the terminal users into glenda's group. The obvious
solution seemed to be to set up a 'commondevs' group, add glenda and the
allowed device users to it, then have the CPU server 'chgrp commondevs
/dev/...' but no joy there. There's got to be something stunningly simple
here that I'm missing ...

--lyndon