On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:20, Andy Fraser wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Nov 2005 10:11 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > I was wondering if someone could tell me how to set the permissions for > > > a USB card reader when it's plugged in? I've been Googling for hours > > > and found nothing concrete so far although I'll keep looking. > > > > devfs.conf can do it. > > I thought that was only for devices that exist at boot? I have my DVD > burner set up in devfs.conf so I can use it as my user (reading and burning > with some other tweaks[1]).
Nope, it's applied to all devices as they are created as well as pre-existing ones. > ...and this turned out to be the missing piece in the jigsaw. Yeah it took me a while to find out you needed that too :) > [1] One of the reasons I first tried FreeBSD as a desktop OS was because it > has better support for CD/DVD burning as a user than Linux does (I still > can't get burning working reliably with Gentoo but FreeBSD works > flawlessly). And the sound system is much better but that's another story. > :-) Weird, I would expect it to be largely the same. PS another way to do this would be to create a devd file which does the chmod's for this particular device (instead of blindly changing all da devices). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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