How to change udev rules for permissions?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Dec 27 02:35:12 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 21:45 +0000, monty19@ hotmail.com wrote:
> I have a Canon MP170, which behaves much less like a paperweight when 
> attached to my FC6 desktop these days.  I have it shared to two Windows 
> XP/Vista laptops both for printing and scanning usings cups-lpd and saned, 
> and it mostly works great.  The last silly obsticle seems to be that I need 
> to alter the permissions on /dev/bus/usb/005/002, or XSane (Win32 port) on 
> the two laptops complains that there are no devices found.
> 
> I tried working with the rules in /etc/udev/rules.d but I don't seem to be 
> understanding what I am reading correctly.  Can someone give an example of 
> how to get the device created by udev with the permissions I need?
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I'm not sure how this works with a networked device but you probably
want to look at this...

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

Craig




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