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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:16:05 -0500
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> wrote:

> > I'm not saying that you don't, just that it needs to be considerred.
> > And is that ALL they can do if you change it?
> 
> I don't see what the problem would be for giving 
> read-only access to /dev/usb[n] for non-operators, but I'll
> let someone else chime in.

Can it be used to read data which may not readable without this change
(e.g. can you access umass devices via usb[n])?

Bye,
Alexander.

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