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From: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sticky permissions of block devices
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:08:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911292008.15575.zzam@gentoo.org> (raw)

Hi there!

Newer udev has an ugly behaviour regarding block devices.
Chown a blockdevice to some user and open it once.
udev will trigger a change event and reset the permissions back to root:disk.

The fastest solution I can propose is to restrict permission setting to 
ACTION="add", but is that a good choice?

The use-case I had was to allow a user to access /dev/sda for running qemu.

Regards
Matthias

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-29 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-29 19:08 Matthias Schwarzott [this message]
2009-11-29 19:16 ` sticky permissions of block devices Kay Sievers

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