Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/9] drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:55:24 +0930 |
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simon@mungewell.org writes: >> simon@mungewell.org writes: >>> Yep I'm OK with that, however what it the recommended way to make sure >>> that the end user is able to send changes to this /sys portal? I asked >>> the >>> same question before regarding the led class /sys interface, but never >>> got >>> any suggestions. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org> >> >> If you need that, we'll need to make an exception. That's one purpose >> of spamming everyone with these changs... > > > What's the right way of doing it?... I don't need to be 'special'. ;-) > > The '/sys/.../range' control allows the user to limit the rotation of the > gaming wheel from a maximum of 900' down to match the 'car' they > sim-driving. Probably not many people use it, but it probably should be > assigned properly. > > With gaming controllers the /dev/input/event* seem to get set > appropriately, but I'm not sure how this happens. > > The same /should/ also happen for all the LED class controls, I don't want > to have to 'sudo' just to set a LED on/off. This is currently a problem > for (at least) hid-lg, hid-sony and hid-steelseries. > Simon
I think this is a udev duty. Someone needs to chmod/chown/chgrp the files if you want to allow a particular group/user access (I just checked, that works fot sysfs files).
I have no idea about HID, so I don't know how you'd figure out who that user/group is...
Cheers, Rusty.
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