Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186617
hal doesn't set device groups from 50-default.perms
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:45:04 EST
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #173757 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: If I login to X when my USB scanner is plugged in, the group and 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 scanner device is not set to the proper group. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.7-3 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 /dev/bus/usb/001/002 -rw-rw---- 1 uckelman root 50 Nov 20 19:05 /dev/bus/usb/001/002 Expected Results: [uckelman@scylla ~]$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/002 -rw-rw---- 1 uckelman users 50 Nov 20 19:05 /dev/bus/usb/001/002 Additional info: Here's are the relevant bits from my /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-defaults.perms: <scanner>=/dev/scanner* /dev/usb/scanner* <console> 0660 <scanner> 0660 root.users And there is indeed a link called /dev/scanner-usbdev1.2 to /dev/bus/usb/001/002. This is the same problem I reported in bug 173757, but it was closed because the problem was claimed to be fixed in Rawhide. Now I'm using FC5, and apparently that's not the case.
I just discovered that if I create an /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local.rules containing the following: SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device", ACTION!="add", GOTO="local_rules_end" # Epson Corp.|Perfection 610 SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0103", SYMLINK+="scanner-%k", GROUP="users" LABEL="local_rules_end" I get the desired behavior---the group is properly set for the scanner when it's plugged in. So maybe this isn't a bug now... (though I think it *was* a bug in FC4).
This is fixed in Fedora 7, so I'm closing the bug.