ACLs in udev-add.c?

ACLs in udev-add.c?

[Matthew Mastracci]

I'm curious about what sort of work might be required to change
udev-add.c to support filesystem ACLs.  

I'd like to have each of my console-type devices have an ACL list sync'd
with the currently logged-in users.  I run X on two consoles with two
different users and the permissions are currently a pain to maintain.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty in udev, but it looks like the
udevice structure would need to be extended to support multiple owners
(but only on udev storage that supports it).

Is this a reasonable thing to have in udev, or should it be part of the
hotplug scripts?

-- 
Matthew Mastracci <matt@aclaro.com>



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Re: ACLs in udev-add.c?

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:36:15PM -0600, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> I'm curious about what sort of work might be required to change
> udev-add.c to support filesystem ACLs.  
> 
> I'd like to have each of my console-type devices have an ACL list sync'd
> with the currently logged-in users.  I run X on two consoles with two
> different users and the permissions are currently a pain to maintain.
> 
> I don't mind getting my hands dirty in udev, but it looks like the
> udevice structure would need to be extended to support multiple owners
> (but only on udev storage that supports it).
> 
> Is this a reasonable thing to have in udev, or should it be part of the
> hotplug scripts?

It could go in udev, or as a script/program that udev calls after it
runs.  See the /etc/dev.d framework for more info on this.  Just plop a
program down in /etc/dev.d/default/ with the extension .dev and it will
always be called.  See my previous announcements for full details.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h


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