From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 04:59:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E28116A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:59:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5036843D49 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:59:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from frankie (cpe-70-93-57-42.hawaii.res.rr.com [70.93.57.42]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j9H4xQFf022022; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:59:25 -1000 From: Robert Marella To: Malcolm Kay Message-ID: <20051016185925.06fa56c8@frankie> In-Reply-To: <200510161554.23406.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200510161554.23406.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.15 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash drive device name difficulties. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:59:29 -0000 On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:54:23 +0930 Malcolm Kay wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE. > I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive > which the system recognises when plugged in; > and I can mount and use it -- all working well. > > But now I'd like to make it available to a user > or group of users through mtools. To do this I need > to change the permissions on /dev/da0s1 where the > flash drive msdos partition appears. This I can make happen > automatically using /etc/usbd.conf by adding the lines: > > device "RunDisk" > vendor 0x0ef5 > product 0x2366 > attach "sleep 1; /bin/chmod g+rw /dev/da[0-9]*" > > giving members of the operator group access. > But this changes permissions on all "da[0-9]" devices. > I know the man pages suggest ${DEVICENAME} to obtain the > particular device but this doesn't work here because usbd > sees the device as "umass0" which doesn't appear in /dev/*. > > For the moment this is the only device I have appearing > in the "da*" group so the problem is not immediate/urgent. > But is there some way I can extract the specific "da*" device > name to use in the attach statement or is there some way I can > make the flash drive always pop up at a specific da name. > > I've also taken a look at devd.conf but the documentation here > seems somewhat sparse. > > You consideration is appreciated, > > Malcolm Kay Hello Malcolm I don't know anything about mtools but you can check this link regarding user mounting of 'da*' devices. Also have a look at 'man devfs.rules' and 'man devfs.conf' http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064237.html Good luck Robert