HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 Release Notes, May 2001
Table Of Contents
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Workstation/Server Specific Information
- 3 HP-UX Features
- 4 File and Disk Management
- 5 Networking
- 6 Commands and System Calls
- 7 Programming
- aC++ Libraries
- Changes to libc
- libcres.a Library
- New libdcekt.sl and libdcecpkt.sl Libraries
- New Linux Compatible API Library
- New locale Libraries
- New Unwind Library
- X11 Libraries
- SNMP
- Machine Dependent Headers
- Threadsafe Documentation
- Obsolescence and Deprecation of APIs
- Linker Toolset
- gprof Multiple Shared Library Profiling
- CXperf Performance Monitoring Support
- HP Caliper
- WDB Debugger Tool
- ADB Debugger Tool
- Fortran
- Packaging for Specific Releases
- 8 Other Functionality
HP-UX Features
Changing /dev/* permissions
Chapter 3 51
Changing /dev/* permissions
In the Administering a System: Managing System Security chapter of
Managing Systems and Workgroups, the section Controlling Security on
a Network - Link-Level Access states
To protect link-level access, make sure that the files /dev/ether*,
/dev/ieee*, and /dev/lan* are owned and writable only by root.
Changing permissions on these files and directories can cause
unforeseen and potentially detrimental side-effects due to symbolic links.
CAUTION Check for links and consider the impact of changing permissions on
these files and directories before making any changes to their
permissions.