Change permissions on /dev file?
Toralf Lund
toralf at procaptura.com
Sat Jan 14 20:30:51 UTC 2006
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>Am Sa, den 14.01.2006 schrieb Toralf Lund um 20:58:
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>>How can I update permissions on a device file on an FC4 setup? I mean, I
>>know I can use chmod, of course, but the problem is that for /dev
>>special files, the changes are lost on reboot.
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>>More specifically, I have a SCSI scanner, and I (obviously) want to
>>access it as a regular user, but by default /dev/sg* can be read and
>>written only by root. How do I change that? (And why don't devices like
>>this automatically get user accessible?)
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>>- T
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>grep -n "sg" /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions
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>The permissions are set there.
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Right. I haven't quite got used to this new(ish) udev stuff... Seems to
me now it must be the place for the setting I want, but the location you
mention can't be correct for my system, as /etc/udev has no permissions.d.
>Alexander
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