sam - preventing insf on disks

[D Block 2]

Can SAM be customized to prevent running INSF command on disks ?

There are non-root own'ed special devices, that get changed when SAM starts up.

Also, see the directory:

in directory: /usr/sam/lib, there is a sub-directory called: "pd". there is various INSF calls from these scripts.

pd/pd.tm: execute "cd /dev ; /sbin/insf -H %$PD_DEV_OBJ_HW_PATH% -e"

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Tom,

Rather than mess with SAM, why not use the mknod command to create duplicates of the device files with unique names that are owned by your non-root user. As long as they don't follow the standard device naming conventions insf should leave them alone...

HTH

Duncan