Re: Operator, Information, give me geom.ctl on the line

> On 28 Jul 2026, at 23:36, Bob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>> On 28 Jul 2026, at 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> [=E2=80=A6]
>> All the way back to 386BSD's /etc/MAKEDEV script, and probably prior =
to
>> that, group operator  [etc]
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> I suspect this may originate with UTS on IBM mainframes in the early =
80s.

Amdahl UTS? I used that somewhere in the 1983-85 (thereabouts?) =
timeframe. I believe it was v6/v7 and later System V.

The time of operators running =E2=80=9Cdump=E2=80=9D seems to be long =
gone. There are finer grained was of achieving the end result now, and =
the risk of allowing a partition table to be destroyed as an unintended =
consequence of having a residual semi-privileged group is a problem.

Regards,

Jan M.