kqemu and devfs - any luck?

[Bakul Shah]

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:05:26 +0100 Jedrzej Kalinowski <kalinoj1 at iem.pw.edu.pl>  wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to set up kqemu (kqemu-devel from -current) to be accessible to us
> ual
> non-wheel users. I've created a ruleset that looks like this:
> 
> # devfs rule show    
> 100 path kqemu mode 666
> 200 path kqemu unhide
> 
> than I do 
> # devfs rule applyset
> 
> but sadly my /dev/kqemu are still owned by root:wheel and have 660
> permissions. I'm proceeding exactly in the way that's described in man 8 devfs
> 
> Maybe someone else succeded with this and could give me a tip on how to
> cope with this issue? Or maybe someone can at least confirm that it does
> not work, and the PR should be posted? I'm working on a -CURRENT
> system..
> 

For loadable modules you can use devfs.conf so try something like
the following as root.

# cat >> /etc/devfs.conf <<EOF
perm	kqemu0	0666
perm	kqemu1	0666
EOF

# /etc/rc.d/devfs restart

But changing permissions to 0666 is a bad idea in my view.  A
slightly better idea is to use the following in devfs.conf

own	kqemu0	foo:bar

if you want to allow user foo to gain access to kqemu0.