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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:14:29 +0530
From:      shreyank amartya <shreyankfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        hps@selasky.org
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usbconfig lack of device or permission
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Okay, so I'm able to use usbconfig once I chown /dev/usb/*. I don't
understand why adding my user to operator group is not enough instead of
chowning everything.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:51 PM shreyank amartya <shreyankfbsd@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > ^^ this is not root :-)
> If I log in as root, usbconfig works. I want to make it work when i'm
> logged in as a normal user (amd).
>
> > Expected, unless you chown the packet filtering devices.
> Please elaborate on how I can i do this?
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:39 PM Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/17/18 12:25 PM, shreyank amartya wrote:
>> > amd@amd-sham:~ % whoami
>> > amd
>> ^^ this is not root :-)
>>
>> >
>> > amd@amd-sham:~ % usbdump -i usbus0 -s 255 -f 5
>> > usbdump: Could not open BPF device: Permission denied
>>
>> Expected, unless you chown the packet filtering devices.
>>
>> --HPS
>>
>



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