Greetings, Yasoda Padala!

> Hi All,
> I have a usb attached to my ubuntu machine (16.04) and trying to access
> that device from unprivileged lxc container.
> By access I mean, enumerate and do I/O on that device.

What for? If it's a block device, just mount it into container FS.

> I have written a small program using libusb library and using that libusb
> executable to enumerate,read/write usb device from container
> Please find attached  lxc config file and libusb executable.
> I have found plenty of examples in various forums but nothing worked for me.


> Tried the following:
> 1. Added below entries in lxc config file
> lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = b 8:* rwm
> lxc.mount.entry = /dev/bus/usb/001/ dev/bus/usb/001/ none bind,create=dir 0 0
> lxc.mount.entry = /dev/sdc /home/oxpd/.local/share/lxc/Test/rootfs/dev/sdc 
> none bind,create=file 0 0
> lxc.mount.entry = /dev/sdc1
> /home/oxpd/.local/share/lxc/Test/rootfs/dev/sdc1 none bind,create=file 0 0


> 2. Changed device owner to 100000 
> 3. changed device permission to 777.on the host


> when I run the libusb executable on host, all the attached device are
> listed, but the same when I run inside the container it says 0 devices are 
> attached.
> Is there any other configuration I am missing. Please help.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:04:14

Sorry for my terrible english...
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