On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:09 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 080427 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > I used to be able to write udev rules that worked,
> > but it looks as if Greg KH has been a very busy lad
> > and udev has gotten a lot more complex of late.
> 
> I just had a run-in with Udev after updating to 119 .
> It started when I went to back up a small file on diskette as usual
> & I was told it couldn't access 'A:'.  The cause turned out to be
> a change in the permissions for  /dev/fd0  to  640 .
> After some investigation, incl a search of the Forum,
> which had no direct advice, but pointed to a Wiki article,
> I was able to write a local rule to set the permission back to  660 .
> 
> It does seem a bizarre change: does anyone have any comments ?

Generally the rule setting permissions on fd0 is in 50-udev.rules, which
can be edited to taste, or you can copy the appropriate rule to
10-local.rules and make the change there.  This does seem odd, unless
there's supposed to be some other mechanism in place to change the
permissions dynamically when a floppy is inserted.  I'm only running
udev-115-r1 which doesn't have this problem.

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