Hi folks,
I'm looking at Troy's recent patch for udev permissions, and it sets the
ownership of your recently-plugged-in Blackberry to the current console
owner.
I'm not convinced this is the right approach, but am willing to be
convinced. Some reasons I have against it:
- it is not portable
This doesn't seem to be portable on systems such as Debian stable, so
in the best case for this feature, it will still be limited to RPM
installs on systems that support it.
Setting up a barry group is more portable with all versions of udev.
- it assumes the owner of the blackberry is sitting in front
of the computer
In desktop systems, this is most likely to be the case, but in the case
where you're running a service, perhaps a daemon that wants to access
the Blackberry, or if you're logging in remotely, I find that group
based permissions works better. Of course, the udev script to be
modified to set the user to console owner and group to "barry", so
this could be worked around.
It would need the RPM to add a barry group.
Comments?
- Chris
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