On Mon, 6 May 1996 dkklee@MIT.EDU wrote: > I had a slip-up in the installation of /dev/hdc (which is the path for > my cdrom). The system as was installed from the floppies has read > permissions for root and the group 'disk', but not others. So no one > else could play the cdrom except root! This is by design. Imagine if /dev/hdc was one of your hard drives. Then a clever person could read any file on the drive. Guy