[PD] hid/linux: event permission

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Wow, Gentoo is really uptight with the perms!  I have the same as below:

root at debian-testing-i386:~ > ls -l /dev/input/event?
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 Sep 26 13:11 /dev/input/event0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 Sep 26 13:11 /dev/input/event1

Basically, you can either change the perms of the devices, or add  
your user to the "root" group.

.hc

On Dec 4, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Jerome Tuncer wrote:

> Hi tim, list,
>
> Debian is :
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  64 2006-12-04 20:02 event0
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  65 2006-12-04 20:02 event1
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  66 2006-12-04 20:02 event2
>
> I remember when I used [hid] a lot I had to :
>
> # chmod a+r /dev/event*
>
> before being able to read anything from it.
>
> ++
>
>
> Jé
>
> Tim Blechmann a écrit :
>> hi hans,
>> i'm just curious ... on gentoo the permissions for the /dev/input/ 
>> eventX
>> devices are set to 600, so they are not available for the ordinary
>> user ... is this a specific bug/feature of gentoo? did you  
>> experience anything
>> like this on other distributions?
>> tim
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