Giant Robot

I have installed a few Debian Sarge (and 4.0) systems in the last week while building a web app for a customer, and they all came up with some (IMO) bad permissions in /dev/. In particular /dev/urandom, /dev/random, /dev/null and /dev/tty were being vexatious by persisting in being unwriteable for common users. This meant I got a few funky errors when trying to SSH as a Regular Guy, or use SSH, or do other 'normal' type things.

This is no bother if you run your Xen guests logged in as root all the time, but that kind of thing just doesn't feel right to me. So I wrote a very basic init.d script to fix this ...

Here's how to install this script:

1. First, take a glance at the script and ensure I'm not A Bad Guy.
2. Download the script and install it to /etc/init.d/local-devperms
   wget -O /etc/init.d/local-devperms http://giantrobot.co.nz/gr/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/local-devperms.txt
3. Do chmod +x /etc/init.d/local-devperms
   
4. Install the script using update-rc.d:
   update-rc.d local-devperms defaults 5