Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools

From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_icir.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:05:31 -0800
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:42:48PM -0600, diz_at_linuxpowered.com wrote:
> hi,
...
> As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
> devfs. My sysgen scripts (wifibsd) are divided into what requires root,
> and what doesn't. My observation is that only mdconfig requires root, and

right now i can produce -current images without root privs
by using makefs (with a bugfix, attached)
and the attached patch to disklabel.
The -stable version still needs a trick for device nodes,
that probably can be handled by makefs itself (which uses
NetBSD's version of mtree which apparently accepts a
device number for device nodes), though I haven't tried it.

	cheers
	luigi

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