From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:14:03 +0000 Subject: Re: $local and user change Message-Id: <20040303201401.GA28511@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <200403031337.04427.dev@gioelebarabucci.com> In-Reply-To: <200403031337.04427.dev@gioelebarabucci.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:08:46PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 19:37, Greg KH wrote: > > > [usbkey] > > > How should one solve this problem? > > > > Not use the $local rule for such a device? :) > > > > Seriously, it sounds like you should just give the device write access > > to a specific group of users, which is much easier to do. > The same problem remains even with groups (if I want the usbkey only by the > owner). > I don't see how chgrp'ing the device can be useful... You are saying that you want a range of users to be able to use the device, right? Either put them all in the same group, or run some script at login/logout time, or have them unplug and replug the device. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel