[SM-Discuss] udev.permissions

Flavien Bridault f.bridault at fra.net
Sat Feb 12 06:03:17 EST 2005


Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 11:59, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 11:00, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:32:35AM -0500, David Michael Leo Brown Jr. 
wrote:
> > > Also remember the GROUP="<group>" field.  Don't know what led them to
> > > change things this way but... okay
> >
> > They wanted to have all policy related to device nodes in one place
> > with one syntax instead of two files with different syntax. There was
> > quite a bit of flamage about that change on the linux-hotplug list, but
> > that's how they decided to do it.
> >
> > > > I'm just putting this out now, since it seems no other notice was
> > > > given. The new version of udev, in test no longer uses the
> > > > udev.permissions file.  It's all part of the udev.rules file.  Make
> > > > sure you update your udev.rules file before you reboot.  The new
> > > > parameter is 'MODE="####"'
> > >
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> It seems that several people are not aware of the new configure stuff and
> think the >0.50 versions are buggy....
> I think we should add a comment at the end of install, perhaps during a
> month or two.... And also copy the new udev.rules in /etc/udev/udev.rules I
> can take care of that if needed.
Ooops, I wanted to say "copy the new udev.rules 
in /etc/udev/udev.rules.example"
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