From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Repeat request: why does Bell mknod(1m) require getuid() == 0? Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2061 Posted: Mon Feb 28 13:09:10 1983 Received: Tue Mar 1 07:20:40 1983 The UCB version does NOT require this. Since mknod(2) requires geteuid() == 0, why make the command also require getuid() == 0? Sorry to repeat the request, but I haven't gotten a good answer yet. Surely someone knows! Please mail me if you do. Thanks!! Alan Silverstein