From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:34:37 +0000 Subject: Re: udev change event Message-Id: <20080707153437.GC26111@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 07, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > - CD w/blank media exists, is 0640 root/disk (or whatever) > > - I log in > > - Rather than set the ACLs, the system daemon writes a udev rule > > - ... how does this not work without an event, and what would theoretically > > provide it? > Inserting the CD. If it was inserted by a precedent user, do you really > want to change the device owner? Substitute 'precedent user' with 'no user', and yes, why not? Doing this all as udev rules seems very wrong. Bill