Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not
> good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that
> i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery
> informatiion, etc.
>
> i am already in these groups: disk,wheel,audio,video,usb,haldaemon,plugdev.
>
> now, i cannot get notification when i plug a new usb device. my
> battery gadget says battery information is not available.
>
> all there stuffs works fine if i log in with root account.

Depending on your specific USB device you may need to edit UDEV rules
to set proper permissions on the device node. For example I had to do
that for normal users to read my digital camera.