On Thursday 18 January 2007 18:55, dabicho wrote: > It sounds like you are not using udev rules to manage the symlinks > here is a good tutorial on how to go about it > > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > That's the tutorial I used to write the rules :-) And a clear one it is, too. > then the permissions thing. > the link is rwxrwxrwx so anybody can access the file through the link. > It is the file_it_points_to's permissions who are denying access to the > user > > I would configure udev to set those devices group owned by a specific group > with the required permissions and add my user to that group. > > Hoping that helps (as I have had need of configuring udev only a couple of > times a long time ago) Thanks to you and Tony for answering. The problem, though, was nothing like what I thought it was. Apparently udev doesn't automatically trigger those rules. It's necessary to run 'udevtrigger' to activate them. Next question, then. Should I put that command into my .bash_profile? Anne
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