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Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk> writes:

> There is no way to decided the user/group and
> permission of the device created. (/etc/devfs.conf can
> be used, but it had to be start after the device is
> created, where it is not created at boot time).

devfs(8) rules should be automatically applied to all devices as
they're created.  Setting up the rules at boot time should be exactly
what you need.  Is this not happening?

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/