[linux-lvm] vgscan changing/resetting perms?

Jason Martin jhmartin at toger.us
Wed Feb 16 19:19:23 UTC 2005


On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:37:10PM -0500, Jeff Bethke wrote:
> Then I go ahead and reboot the host or someone comes along and runs a 
> vgscan.  VOILA!  The perms for those files reset to root:root.   How do 
> I prevent that from happeneing?  I want it so that I can make a device 
> and set its perms to some user, and forget about it.   Is that even 
> possible? If so, how? Or, what am I doing wrong in setting up the lv/vg's?
One generally doesn't let non-root users have direct access to
devices. Instead you should format and mount the filesystems on
those drives and give users access to that.

-JM
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