Messages in this thread |  | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: User-level USB device drivers, and permissions | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:08:34 +0200 |
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> An idea in my head is to have a pam module that, for console users, > mounts -tusbdevfs none /somewhere/usb-bus/$LOGNAME with user ownership > on login and dismounts it on logout, but I don't know if that is > feasible.
This is way too coarse. This control needs to be there on a device level at least.
> Does anyone know if this problem has already been solved, or else can > they think of a solution?
The current conventional wisdom is to use chmod in the hotplug scripts and logout scripts. This has been discussed in connection with a SANE backend for Microtek 3600 scanners.
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