USB Device Permissions In Fedora 11
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Fri May 15 22:13:50 UTC 2009
I have gotten in the habit of baking a backup of my Blackberry with the
barry program in Fedora 11. Each time I connect my Blackberry to a USB
port, some device
/dev/bus/usb/[bus]/[device]
is created. For example
/dev/bus/usb/006/003
However, barry does not work for me (as an unprivileged user) unless I first become root and chmod the device like this:
chmod a+rwx /dev/bus/usb/006/003
Having to do this chmod step annoys me. Is there some way to automate the detection and setting of permissions on the device such that everything is done correctly a moment or so after I connect the Blackberry over USB?
I don't pretend to know the details of how USB devices are assigned, and can always learn more.
I am keeping a Bugzilla item updated with my barry adventures:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478851
Advice welcome.
Bob
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