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Date:      Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:35:24 -0400
From:      Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net>
Subject:   Re: devfs permissions wierdness
Message-ID:  <20050706233524.GA1063@keyslapper.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050706231120.GA37911@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20050706201141.GF42229@keyslapper.net> <20050706231120.GA37911@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On 07/07/05 01:11 AM, Roland Smith sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > I have my devfs config set up to allow certain devices to be mounted
> > by users in the cdusers group as follows:
> >=20
> > own     da1     root:cdusers
> > perm    da1     0660
> > own     da1a    root:cdusers
> > perm    da1a    0660
> > own     da1c    root:cdusers
> > perm    da1c    0660
> > own     da1s1   root:cdusers
> > perm    da1s1   0660
> >=20
> > Problem is it doesn't work unless I go in as root and manually restart
> > the devfs facility with `/etc/rc.d/devfs restart`
>=20
> Configuration for devices present at boot goes into devfs.conf. For
> hotpluggable devices, the rules (with slightly different format) should
> go in devfs.rules.
>=20
> The manual pages I wrote for devfs.conf and devfs.rules were committed
> to CURRENT a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if and when they will
> appear in 5-STABLE. But you can find them on my FreeBSD webpage:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ This page has some more info about
> setting this up.
>=20
> HTH

Excellent.  This is exactly what I was looking for.

My pluggable USB devices are all falling in line now.

Thank you!

Lou
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