USB device permissions

Peter Clark mla at forrussia.org
Mon Mar 20 15:26:24 UTC 2006


On Monday 20 March 2006 16:40, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> > I didn't find the exact file permissions.d but I did
> > have: /etc/udev/permissions.rules
> >
> > this contained the following:
> > # USB devices
> > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="legousbtower*", MODE="0666"
> > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", GROUP="lp"
> > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="ub[a-z]*", NAME="%k", MODE="0640", GROUP="plugdev"
> >
> > My user account is already registered as being in the group "plugdev",
> > but still lacks some permissions with reading and writing.
>
> OK, note that there are no /dev/sd* devices in that set.  You're looking
> for KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*"
    Running `grep -r KERNEL== * | grep "sd\[a" *` in /etc turned up nothing.
    I'm beginning to think that the settings are compiled into some program, 
but I don't know which one. Udev? hotplug? ivman? pmount?
    :Peter





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