On Monday 18 March 2002 12:33 pm, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:00:40AM +0200, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > I just tried Kamera after quite a long time and it actually worked. > > Thank you! It isn't, however, very feasible to use because the device > > file is owned by root: you always have to change its permissions > > manually before starting Kamera as a non-root user. I found a small > > daemon called usb-perms (and packaged it into a .deb > > That's what DEVFS (device file system) is for. If you use 2.4 kernels > and have devfs compiled in, the /dev tree will be maintained as an 'in > memory' file system, with things like nodes, permissions, etc. (also for > "not yet existing" nodes) saved in /etc/devfsd/perms and associated > files.
But USB devices are not in the /dev tree.. they are in proc. They show up in /proc/bus/usb/ The few usb device files in /dev/ are for use with particular drivers (the usb-printers, etc) So far, the only utility that handles usb permissions is usb-perms Jay
