On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:16:51 -0600 "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using lubuntu precise. I've noticed whenever I plugin anything to > USB that it mounts to /dev/ttyUSBn but the device is always owned by > root. > Is there anyway to make it default to ownership to the currently > logged in user? Otherwise I have to remember to chown each time I > plug in a new device. Can you adjust udev to do that for you? A better and easier solution is to see if udev puts it into a group other than root, and add your user account to that group. For example, on Debian I plug a USB thumb drive in, and see: charles@yendi:~$ ll /dev/sdb* brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 16 Sep 6 15:22 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 17 Sep 6 15:22 /dev/sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 18 Sep 6 15:22 /dev/sdb2 charles@yendi:~$ Then I look at the floppy group: charles@yendi:~$ grep floppy /etc/group floppy:x:25:charles charles@yendi:~$ So users root and charles can read and write to the device, and no others. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
