Bug 214925

Summary:	udev ignores "MODE:="0666" in rules, sets to 0660 instead
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	charlie redditt <redcharlie>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2006-11-10 10:17:01 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description charlie redditt 2006-11-10 00:01:33 UTC

Description of problem:
I can chmod 0666 /dev/hdc (my dvdburner) but udev resets to 0660 at reboot.
I need mode 0666 on my burner device so regular users can use k3b

I can set it to mode 0666 as root, but it is not persistent.

I have added the following rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
KERNEL=="hdc", MODE:="0666"

and output of udevtest /block/hdc shows following line:
create_node: creating device node '/dev/hdc', major = '22', minor = '0', mode =
'0666', uid = '0', gid = '6'

Funny thing is, I can take my rule out and udevtest /block/hdc will show it
creating  /dev/hdc as mode 0640, when in reality it is ALWAYS 0660, not 0666 nor
0640

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 0.9.8.1

How reproducible:
add a udev rule to change permission of the device for my burner
restart udev, nothing changes

Or
chmod 666 burner
reboot, and it goes back to mode 660


Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls -l /dev/hdc # (or wherever dvdr is , should be mode 660 )
2. echo 'KERNEL=="hdc", MODE:="0666"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
3. udevtest /block/hdc # make sure rule is okay, should show MODE = 0666
4. chmod 666 /dev/hdc #just for good measure, not necessary
5. ls -l /dev/hdc # will be mode 666 now
6. udevcontrol reload_rules
7. udevstart
  
Actual results:
ls -l /dev/hdc  # will be mode 660 after steps above 

Expected results:
ls -l /dev/hdc  # should be mode 666 after steps above 

Additional info:
This is just an annoyance, I need mode 666 for regular users to be able to use
k3b to burn cd's or dvd's

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2006-11-10 10:17:01 UTC

 ":=" is wrong... "=" is correct

but... permissions are set by pam_console described in
/etc/security/console.perms.d/

The console user, who first logs on the console will own the device.. no need
for 0666

Comment 2 charlie redditt 2006-11-10 19:12:38 UTC

from man 7 udev
 ":=     Assign a value to a key finally; disallow any later changes, 
     which may be used to prevent changes by any later rules."

lo and behold, yes, if I log in at the console, I own the drive and k3b works!

My trouble is that I almost always connect to my machine via VNC.  I suppose I
could login on a tty and leave it (rather than always running a local X server
that I'll never use).

I changed the <cdrom> line in 50-default.perm  to default to 0666 instead of
0660, and k3b works via VNC now, regardless of whether or not I'm logged in or not.

THANX!