From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:55:46 +0000 Subject: Re: udev change event Message-Id: <20080707145546.GA26111@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <486CBF8C.1090406@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <486CBF8C.1090406@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) said: > On Jul 03, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > I think this is intended: manually changing the permissions of dynamic > > > devices is not supposed to work. > > ....? How do you handle ACLs for local users, then? > I don't (not my package), but if I had to I would dynamically maintain > rules in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ . So, instead of just calling setfacl() when a user logs in, it's better to write udev syntax and kill the daemon (oh, and then generate an event to apply them?) That's just nuts. Far better to change all the distributed rules to only have MODE= on 'add' events, not change ones. Bill