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


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