permissions on umass device

Guy Middleton guy at obstruction.com
Sat Oct 4 07:32:12 PDT 2003


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:22:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:46:06PM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote:
> > On a 5.1-RELEASE system, I attach a umass device, and it appears in /dev like
> > this:
> > 
> > $ ls -l /dev/da3
> > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  28 Sep 19 23:29 /dev/da3
> > $ 
> > 
> > How do I get it to use different permissions, or a different group?
> 
> /etc/devfs.conf

I tried this:

perm    da3     0660

This did not work for me.  It looks as if /etc/devfs.conf is only read at
boot, so my umass device (a USB memory key) is ignored when attached later.


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