Devlabel 0.30.08 is available here.

* Added --uid, --gid, and --perms which are usable during an add command.

If these options are specified, when the symlink is made it applies these permissions to the underlying device avoiding any security hazards in the event of a device name change. So, if you have a partition /dev/sdd6 which is readable and writable by everyone on a system and a partition /dev/sde6 which is only readable by root, if /dev/sdd goes down and /dev/sde becomes /dev/sdd, the correct permissions of /dev/sde6 will be applied to /dev/sdd6 to ensure that there are no unauthorized accesses.

By Gary at 01:57 PM in Linux | Comments (1)  

Are --uid, --gid, and --perms the only way for a user to access a private ssh key on a USB thumbdrive with the appropriate permissions? (like "user user 600")

I couldn't make any option in fstab work. The permissions always are root root 755.

I take it then that only one user on a system would be able to make this work?
-John

Posted by: John Desmond at July 28, 2003 05:07 AM