From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 01:47:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A399C16A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:47:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andyfraser@gmail.com) Received: from mail.linuxuser.org.uk (213-152-59-115.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.59.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D74243D46 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:47:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andyfraser@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (mantis.linuxuser.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linuxuser.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53222075A for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:47:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.linuxuser.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mantis.linuxuser.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11344-04 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:47:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wasp.linuxuser.org.uk (wasp.linuxuser.org.uk [192.168.0.10]) by mail.linuxuser.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AEA420528 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:47:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Andy Fraser To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:47:38 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200511082054.42113.andyfraser@gmail.com> <200511082250.04433.andyfraser@gmail.com> <200511091053.08122.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200511091053.08122.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511090147.38622.andyfraser@gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (Gentoo) at linuxuser.org.uk Subject: Re: USB Card Reader Permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:47:46 -0000 On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 12:22 am, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I thought that was only for devices that exist at boot? I have my DVD > > burner set up in devfs.conf so I can use it as my user (reading and > > burning with some other tweaks[1]). > > Nope, it's applied to all devices as they are created as well as > pre-existing ones. Ah, cool. :-) > > ...and this turned out to be the missing piece in the jigsaw. > > Yeah it took me a while to find out you needed that too :) :-) > > [1] One of the reasons I first tried FreeBSD as a desktop OS was because > > it has better support for CD/DVD burning as a user than Linux does (I > > still can't get burning working reliably with Gentoo but FreeBSD works > > flawlessly). And the sound system is much better but that's another > > story. > > > > :-) > > Weird, I would expect it to be largely the same. I don't want to say too much, it being OT and all, but a change in Linux 2.6.8 has meant that I have to run my burning software as root to get a reliable burn. I've yet to find a solution to that problem. > PS another way to do this would be to create a devd file which does the > chmod's for this particular device (instead of blindly changing all da > devices). I have things working, I'm happy. :-) I'll look at other options and better set ups when I have either the need or the time. :-) -- Andy.