/etc/udev/permissions.d handling for udev

/etc/udev/permissions.d handling for udev

[Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski]

Hello,

I've installed udev and noted that it isn't able to manage access rights
for device nodes. I need this functionality, so I've written some code
(called from udev_rules_get_name()) that reads contents of
/etc/udev/permissions.d and sets owner, group and access rights accordingly.
A patch for udev-065 is available at

http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~tlukasze/udev/udev-065-permissions.patch.gz

The syntax of permissions file is based on etc/udev/udev.permissions
or etc/udev/slackware/udev.permissions, distributed with the sources.

Tomasz Lukaszewski


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Re: /etc/udev/permissions.d handling for udev

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:41:53PM +0200, Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've installed udev and noted that it isn't able to manage access rights
> for device nodes. I need this functionality, so I've written some code
> (called from udev_rules_get_name()) that reads contents of
> /etc/udev/permissions.d and sets owner, group and access rights accordingly.
> A patch for udev-065 is available at
> 
> http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~tlukasze/udev/udev-065-permissions.patch.gz
> 
> The syntax of permissions file is based on etc/udev/udev.permissions
> or etc/udev/slackware/udev.permissions, distributed with the sources.

/etc/udev/permissions.d/ was removed long ago for good reason. Use
OWNER=, GROUP=, MODE= in a /etc/udev/rules.d/ file. You can even match
against a whole subsystem with that model:
  SUBSYSTEM="block", GROUP="disk"

This patch or anything similar that reads a different source of permissions
does not make sense in the current udev. Better convince your distro to
switch to the unified format.

Thanks,
Kay


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