Changing permissions of /dev/usb[n] to 664?

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

Is there any particular reason to leave the
permissions of /dev/usb[n] at 660 instead of 664?

That would allow non-root users to run usbdevs
to list the USB devices on the system.


--- usb.c.orig	Sun Nov  7 01:41:43 2004
+++ usb.c	Sun Nov  7 01:41:56 2004
@@ -320,11 +320,11 @@
 	/* The per controller devices (used for usb_discover) */
 	/* XXX This is redundant now, but old usbd's will want it */
 	sc->sc_usbdev = make_dev(&usb_cdevsw, device_get_unit(self), UID_ROOT,
-	    GID_OPERATOR, 0660, "usb%d", device_get_unit(self));
+	    GID_OPERATOR, 0664, "usb%d", device_get_unit(self));
 	if (usb_ndevs++ == 0) {
 		/* The device spitting out events */
 		usb_dev = make_dev(&usb_cdevsw, USB_DEV_MINOR, UID_ROOT,
-		    GID_OPERATOR, 0660, "usb");
+		    GID_OPERATOR, 0664, "usb");
 	}
 #endif
 



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