On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Eliot Blennerhassett
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:21 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I have a programmable board connected via USB that is only writeable by
>>>> root, so I have to run every make command as root, which is not good. to
>>>
>>> Surely only download code to the board?
>>> Building should not require root in any case?
>>>
>>>> set up the USB permissions by creating a file called
>>>> /etc/udev/rules.d/52-bootloadDFU.rules containing:
>>>>
>>>> ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2fee", MODE="666"
>>>> ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2ff0", MODE="666"
>>>
>>> Should be ATTRS I think.
>>
>> This document http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html would
>> indicate it is ATTRS not ATTR.
>>
>
> actually man udev specifies both:
>
> ATTR{filename}
>           Match sysfs attribute values of the event device. Trailing
> whitespace in the attribute values is ignored, if the specified match
> value does not contain trailing whitespace itself.
>
> ATTRS{filename}
>           Search the devpath upwards for a device with matching sysfs
> attribute values. If multiple ATTRS matches are specified, all of them
> must match on the same device. Trailing whitespace in the attribute
> values is ignored, if the specified match value does not contain
> trailing whitespace itself.
>
>
> Not that this helps my understanding any more, i am lost for sure.
>

Also go back a step, what permissions does the device file come up
with by deafult? You are attemting to set it up so the whole world can
write to it. A more acceptable and usual procedure is to leave it
owned by root, in a specific group and set the permissions so that
only root and members of that group can write to it. Then make
yourself a member of that group, and re-login.

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