Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> In article <20020309000123.B172511119@www.netbsd.org>,
> 	anne@alcor.concordia.ca writes:
> 
> > Make a RAID set, put a filesystem on it, mount the filesystem, and
> > try "raidctl -s" on the RAID device.
> 
> Evidently, you need to be root, or else your user needs to have write
> privileges on /dev/raid0d. A similar situation exists with the CD ROM
> devices -- you need to have write privs just to get status. The defaults
> for such devices should probably be "g+w", at least.

raidctl should be changed so that operations that don't require
write access don't open the device with the write flag set.  I
just tried changing the "O_RDWR" to "O_RDONLY" in raidctl.c and
now I can "raidctl -s" as a user with group operator on a mounted
device where the device is mode 640.

Simon.
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