howto change a device's permission permanently

[Derek Broughton]

Cameron Hutchison wrote:

> Ainsley Pereira wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:14:24PM -0400, Chuang Wu wrote:
>>>    I wanna change the permission of /dev/fuse to 666 permanently.
>>>    However, each time I restart the system, the permission recover to
>>>    660. Howto fix it?
> 
>>There should be an entry in one of the files in /etc/udev/rules.d for
>>it. You can change the MODE="0660" part (assuming it has one; I don't
>>have fuse on my system to find out).
...
> However, as an alternative to doing this, you can add users to the "fuse"
> group to give them the access they need to use /dev/fuse. Dont forget
> to logout and back in to get the new group.

...Which would seem to be the intended purpose.  Why does giving world
access always seem to be the first thing people think of when a device has
group access and group ownership?
-- 
derek