On Monday 11 August 2003 12:59, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 12:48, Timothy Grant wrote: > > I want to make the ThinkPad Buttons utility work on my Thinkpad, but it > > tells me that I don't have access to /dev/nvram. > > > > I've looked at the configuration file, but am not sure exactly what > > changes to make to give my users access to /dev/nvram. > > > > Tips gladly accepted. > > I've found that if I change the permissions or add symlinks in /dev, the > changes seem to be preserved over reboot. It's probably not a good idea to > give all your users access to /dev/nvram though. Wouldn't a "cat /dev/null > > /dev/nvram" kill your BIOS? or at least your BIOS config? Perhaps set up > a new group for the ThinkPad utility and then just chown root:<new group> > /dev/nvram. Then reboot to confirm that it is preserved. > I just checked this to confirm. Have a look at the man pages for devfsd.conf and then devfsd to find out the details. Basically /etc/devfsd.conf comes preconfigured to save and restore device permissions. If you want to force it you can add a line such as;
REGISTER nvram PERMISSIONS -1.users 0660 The device name is processed as a regular expression which I know absolutely nothing about. I think however that the above would match any device with nvram in it's name. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
