From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:27:04 +0000 Subject: Re: default udev rules Message-Id: <1218468424.4448.70.camel@lgn.site> List-Id: References: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> In-Reply-To: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:21 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:54 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > Setting any group names, and thus any group-writable permissions; our > > > rules have these split out into a separate file which is added later. > > > > That makes no difference, assigning perms works any time. > > > But assigning groups doesn't. Wrong. > As you're well aware, we run udev in the initramfs, where any attempt to > look up a group name will simply end in an error. Copy over /etc/groups and done! And who cares about groups in initramfs, we fall back to root then, and done! I'm still looking forward to the facts. Thanks! Kay