From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.0.4-2 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms sets the console user as the owner of analog TV cards (v4l devices), but not DVB cards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-0.79-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install DVB card 2. Login Actual Results: Only root can acess the DVB card: $ ll /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 212, 4 May 19 2005 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 212, 5 May 19 2005 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 212, 3 May 18 22:48 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 212, 7 May 19 2005 net0 Expected Results: The user logged in on the console should have rw access to /dev/dvb/* Additional info: Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C card, budget_av driver.
This is the reason why the console.perms.d directory was implemented. You can put there a new file which would support the devices for your hardware without needing to modify the default config file.
Any reason why the permissions for the DVB devices are not set in the default config file?