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From: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: permissions: udev vs. pam_devperm.so
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:37:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <417DF0A8.2060108@bio.ifi.lmu.de> (raw)

Hi,

when logging in via kdm on our SuSE, the pam_devperm module sets
permissions and owner of local devices like /dev/hdc (for cdrom). So
if user "bart" logs in, he get

brw-------    1 bart     disk      22,   0 Sep 23  2003 /dev/hdc


But on some events like calling k3b etc., hotplug/udev sometimes jump
in (not always) an re-detect the block device /dev/hdc, thus setting
the permissions back to the defaults:

brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   0 Sep 23  2003 /dev/hdc

This stops user bart from accessing the cdrom for burning etc.

Can I tel udev to leave the permission of *existing* nodes untouched?
I figured out that I could set the line in the permissions file to

hdc*:::660

but the drawback is that udev will create /dev/hdc with the defaults
root:root and 600 like defined in udev.conf, and not with root:disk 660
like it should when no local user is logged in.

Any way to achieve that? Like a flag "leave node untouched if it exists"?

cu,
Frank

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-26  6:37 Frank Steiner [this message]
2004-10-26 12:25 ` permissions: udev vs. pam_devperm.so Kay Sievers
2004-10-26 12:30 ` Frank Steiner
2004-10-26 13:16 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-26 13:20 ` Frank Steiner
2004-10-26 13:49 ` Frank Steiner
2004-10-26 14:47 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-26 14:57 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-27  0:02 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-27  5:59 ` Frank Steiner

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