Bug 173757

Summary: hotplug doesn't apply device permissions from 50-default.perms
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joel Uckelman <uckelman>
Component: hotplugAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Joel Uckelman 2005-11-20 18:28:08 UTC 
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Description of problem:
If I login to X when my USB scanner is plugged in, the permissions found in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms are applied. If I login to X and then plug in my scanner, the permissions found there are ignored.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hotplug-2004_09_23-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to X.
2. Plug in my USB scanner.
3. Check the permissions on /proc/bus/usb/xxx/yyy.
  

Actual Results:  [uckelman@scylla ~]$ ls -l /proc/bus/usb/004/003
-rw-rw----  1 uckelman root 50 Nov 20 19:05 /proc/bus/usb/004/003


Expected Results:  uckelman@scylla ~]$ ls -l /proc/bus/usb/004/003
-rw-rw----  1 uckelman users 50 Nov 20 19:05 /proc/bus/usb/004/003


Additional info:

I checked the following:

1. That /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner runs when I plug in my scanner.
2. That pam_console_apply is run from it.
3. That I really do have the permissions I want for the scanner in 50-defaults.perms:

<console>  0660 <scanner>    0660 root.users

4. That I really do get those permissions when the scanner is plugged in at the point when I login.

So either pam_console_apply is doing the wrong thing, or the script run by hotplug isn't involing pam_console_apply properly, or both?
Comment 1 Joel Uckelman 2005-11-20 18:30:45 UTC 
Ack, where I say permissions above I mean "group". It's the group which is being
ignored when I plug in the scanner.
Comment 2 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-02-15 16:00:20 UTC 
Passing the hot potato.  HAL didn't start changing device permissions until FC5
when we got rid of hotplug.  This is a hotplug or pam_console_apply issue.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-02-15 16:36:57 UTC 
This should be fixed in rawhide with the current udev/libusb combination.