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