Bug 815093
| Summary: | boot warning >> udevd[493] specified group 'plugdev' unknown | |||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Simon Lewis <simon.lewis> | |
| Component: | libftdi | Assignee: | Lucian Langa <lucilanga> | |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | unspecified | |||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | cbm, harald, johannbg, jonathan, jscalia, karl+rhbugzilla, lucilanga, neteler, paulo.fidalgo.pt, simon.lewis, sjensen, udev-maint, wendellcraigbaker | |
| Target Milestone: | --- | |||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
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| : | 835636 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-02-13 13:19:25 UTC | Type: | Bug | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
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Description
Simon Lewis
2012-04-22 13:01:16 UTC
$ fgrep -r plugdev /{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-libftdi.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"
$ rpm -qf /etc/udev/rules.d/99-libftdi.rules
libftdi-0.19-3.fc17.x86_64
The group "plugdev" is a pretty misguided and inflexible Ubuntu concept to grant device access to ordinary users. Fedora supports dynamic uder ACLs, and does not want to support any static groups for users. The rule needs to be fixed, the group "plugdev" should not exist on Fedora. From the looks of it this one has not been fixed but rather "worked around" http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libftdi.git/tree/libftdi.spec "%pre getent group plugdev >/dev/null || groupadd -r plugdev exit 0" Kay can you give a bit more detail ( sample ) on what is the proper way to fix this since we are seeing this in more packages then just this one (In reply to comment #3) > From the looks of it this one has not been fixed but rather "worked around" > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libftdi.git/tree/libftdi.spec > > "%pre > getent group plugdev >/dev/null || groupadd -r plugdev > exit 0" > > Kay can you give a bit more detail ( sample ) on what is the proper way to > fix this since we are seeing this in more packages then just this one Sure, we must entirely get rid of that crap. "plugdev" is a very misguided and fundamentally wrong Ubuntuism. Fedora must not solve problems that way, we do not put users in system groups to grant access to devices, especially do not define non-sensical groups like: "the group of users that can plug devices into the system". Fedora uses individually managed ACLs for granting ordinary user access to devices. The ACLs are seat (multiple users working simultaneously on the same host), and they track session activity. It depends on the type of devices how to hook up the device in the ACL handling: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/login/70-uaccess.rules Please just patch the rules not to use "plugdev" at all, we can do better and don't want "plugdev" in Fedora. Thanks! Argyll relies on plugdev group too:
fgrep -r plugdev /{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d
/lib/udev/rules.d/55-Argyll.rules:# Otherwise, restrict access to members of the plugdev group
/lib/udev/rules.d/55-Argyll.rules:ENV{COLOR_MEASUREMENT_DEVICE}=="*?", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}!="*?", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev"
Forget my last comment... it's unrelated with libftdi. This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |