On 12/09/11 16:01, Nick Rout wrote: >> [snip] >> >> actually man udev specifies both: >> >> [snip] >> >> Not that this helps my understanding any more, i am lost for sure.
Hence the "nightmare" in the subject line. :) > 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. The actual device file shows up as owned by root, group is root, rw for user and group, but only read for everyone else. I'll set a more sane group-based permission once I can get udev to create the file with different permissions. --Aidan _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
