Change permissions on /dev file?

[Bill Perkins]

Toralf Lund wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>> Am Sa, den 14.01.2006 schrieb Toralf Lund um 20:58:
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>>> How can I update permissions on a device file on an FC4 setup? I 
>>> mean, I know I can use chmod, of course, but the problem is that for 
>>> /dev special files, the changes are lost on reboot.
>>>
>>> More specifically, I have a SCSI scanner, and I (obviously) want to 
>>> access it as a regular user, but by default /dev/sg* can be read and 
>>> written only by root. How do I change that? (And why don't devices 
>>> like this automatically get user accessible?)
>>>
>>> - T
>>>   
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>> grep -n "sg" /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions
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>> The permissions are set there.
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> Right. I haven't quite got used to this new(ish) udev stuff... Seems to 
> me now it must be the place for the setting I want, but the location you 
> mention can't be correct for my system, as /etc/udev has no permissions.d.
> 
>> Alexander
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Look to /etc/udev/rules.d
HTH

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