From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User-level USB device drivers, and permissions
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:08:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011006000747Z274705-760+21348@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011005125116.K7197@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011005125116.K7197@redhat.com>
> An idea in my head is to have a pam module that, for console users,
> mounts -tusbdevfs none /somewhere/usb-bus/$LOGNAME with user ownership
> on login and dismounts it on logout, but I don't know if that is
> feasible.
This is way too coarse. This control needs to be there on a device level at
least.
> Does anyone know if this problem has already been solved, or else can
> they think of a solution?
The current conventional wisdom is to use chmod in the hotplug scripts and
logout scripts.
This has been discussed in connection with a SANE backend for Microtek 3600
scanners.
Regards
Oliver
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2001-10-05 11:51 Tim Waugh
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