Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:42:40 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville
<deserevi@ieec.uab.es> wrote:
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> I reinstalled the "udev" and "hal" packages and I have the "fam" package:
> ii  fam            2.7.0-6        File Alteration Monitor
> 
> It doesn't change anything, the icons still don't appear :-(
> 
> Also,
> ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d
> total 1,0K
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  19 2004-12-28 17:02 cd-aliases.rules ->
> ../cd-aliases.rules
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 843 2004-12-26 00:14 gyp_udev.rules
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  13 2004-12-28 17:02 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  12 2004-12-28 17:02 z_hal-plugdev.rules ->
> ../hal.rules
>

Don't know about "gyp_udev.rules" but the rest seems ok.

> 
> But now I manage to get automatically an icon for my camera and stick
> when I start an Xsession as root! :-) So I guess I have a problem of
> groups or permission.
> 
> Any ideas of what I can further check?
> 
> Now I will make a detail comparison of the logs when I am root or not.
> 
> Thank you,

I can only suggest to check if your user is in the "plugdev" group,
nothing more...


Andrea