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080427 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:09 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I just had a run-in with Udev after updating to 119 .
>> It started when I went to back up a small file on diskette as usual
>> & I was told it couldn't access 'A:'.  The cause turned out to be
>> a change in the permissions for  /dev/fd0  to  640 .
>> After some investigation, incl a search of the Forum,
>> which had no direct advice, but pointed to a Wiki article,
>> I was able to write a local rule to set the permission back to  660 .
>> It does seem a bizarre change: does anyone have any comments ?
> Generally the rule setting permissions on fd0 is in 50-udev.rules,
> which can be edited to taste or you can copy the appropriate rule
> to  10-local.rules  and make the change there.  This does seem odd,
> unless there's supposed to be some other mechanism in place
> to change the permissions dynamically when a floppy is inserted.

Well, there's a big warning at the top of  50-udev  not to edit it !
I've never needed to fiddle with Udev rules before,
but I earlier did just what you suggest & all was well again.

> I'm only running udev-115-r1 which doesn't have this problem.

The problem arose after updating to  119  yesterday.
It does seem a strange change to make in the default Udev set-up.

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