Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 08:36:43 -0800 (PST) From: Arne Woerner <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Stefan "Eßer" <se@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xsane as user Message-ID: <20060107163643.12201.qmail@web30310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060107161111.GA42739@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org>
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--- Stefan Eßer <se@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > % cat /etc/devfs.conf
> > perm uscanner0 0664
>
> Hmmm, why 0664?
>
Oh... I put myself into the operator group...
I saw that too late... I hope my example still clear enough... It
should have been 0666 there too.
> Interesting idea to apply devfs rules from
> devd ...
>
I did not know, what devfs is good for, so I put it into devd so
that it makes sense in my setting (when I unplugged the scanner
the devfs settings were lost after I re-plugged the scanner).
> attach 100 {
> device-name "uscanner[0-9]+";
> action "chmod 660 /dev/$device-name";
> };
>
This creates uncontrolled redundancy, because then I have the
perms set in devfs.conf and in devd.conf...
I haven't understood the devfs/devd idea completely... :-)
-Arne
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