usb device permissions

Sean McNeil sean at mcneil.com
Wed Aug 25 16:20:45 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:06, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 03:39 pm, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using -CURRENT and looking for an easy way to get it to change the
> > permissions to a usb device when plugged in.  I know I can change things
> > on startup with devfs.conf, but what do I do for usb?
> >
> > It is a umass device that creates da0 and da0s.  I've tried to put in
> > usbd.conf
> >
> > device "Storage"
> >  device "da.*"
> >  attach "/bin/chmod 0666 /dev/${DEVNAME}"
> >
> > but no joy.
> >
> > I've also tried a rule for devfs by creating /etc/devfs.rules with
> >
> > add path "da*" mode 0666
> >
> > same result.
> >
> > Could someone help me figure this one out?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
> >
> /etc/devfs.rules:
> [system=10]
> add path 'da*' mode 0660
> 
> and add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
> devfs_system_ruleset="system"

Perfect.  Thanks for the quick solution.

Sean




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