On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Michael Thayer wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > ok, so, barring messing with "chown" and "chmod" commands (which
> > i *hate* doing for stuff like this), what is the proper way to
> > grant a non-root account r/w access to usbfs? is this a udev
> > feature? is it done automatically? enquiring minds want to know.
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> usbfs is a filesystem which must be mounted with the right
> permissions for the user to access it. How this is done varies from
> distribution to distribution, but the user manual gives a few
> examples.
i assumed that, by default, the usbfs was already available. on my
fedora 8 system, i can see this line from /proc/mounts:
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime 0 0
so it seems clear that that's already set up properly. i was just
wondering if there were other distros for which that wasn't true --
that would seem to be a significant difference between distros and
would actually require some work, but i haven't noticed that yet, and
i've installed both fedora 9 alpha and opensuse 10.3.
so i'm just going to assume that i don't need to do any messing with
that for the time being.
thanks.
rday
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