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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] udev rules cleanup / merging rules files with other distros
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:23:30
Message-Id: 1189455021.24051.2.camel@su.perronet.esiee.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] udev rules cleanup / merging rules files with other distros by Matthias Schwarzott
1 Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 11:38 +0200, Matthias Schwarzott a
2 écrit :
3 > > Having usb devices as root:root 644 is going to be a PITA if we don't
4 > > have something like a sane pam_console (one that doesn't change all /dev
5 > > nodes whenever someone logs in over ssh, like the one we used to have
6 > > did) or like ConsoleKit.
7 >
8 > I am not planning to delete group usb. I just want to discuss this permission
9 > stuff and not decide alone.
10
11 > For usb we sure keep GROUP=usb, MODE=664.
12 > And for additional packages maybe changed group, but still MODE=664.
13
14 > Unlike most packages changing usb-permissions that now install MODE=660. I
15 > should create a bug about this.
16 >
17 > (Incomplete) list of affected packages:
18 > media-libs/libgphoto2: GROUP="plugdev", MODE="660"
19 > media-gfx/iscan: GROUP="scanner", MODE="660"
20 > media-gfx/sane-backends: GROUP="scanner", MODE="660"
21
22 don't know about iscan and sane but libgphoto2 probably uses plugdev
23 because it's used very much in the same logic of mass storage removable
24 media.
25
26 --
27 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
28 Gentoo

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