Re: Packaging /dev entries as non-root

[Mark Hatle <fray mvista com>]

What we do is create the dev entries in a %post script.  Our build 
environment is 100% user based, we never switch to root for anything.

The additional advantage in the %post is then you can do a simple uid 
check, if the user isn't root.. then you can't create the device nodes 
anyway.

--Mark

Axel Thimm wrote:
> I am converting the current atrpms build environment from using root
> to using a non priviledged user for building.
>
> While assigning ownerships/modes can be done with attr, I now stumbled
> over /dev entries. Is there a method to mknod as non-root (possibly
> not), or to register /dev nodes in the rpm like with attr? Thanks.