[PD] hid/linux: event permission

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:22 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Basically, you can either change the perms of the devices, or add  
>> your
>> user to the "root" group.
>>
>
> do i read correctly that you are proposing to add your user to the
> "root" group?

Yes, the root group doesn't really give you much additional access.   
Mostly its read permissions on some logs and r/w on the input  
devices, /dev/etc, and /dev/apm_bios, AFAIK.


> i would rather change the group of /dev/input/event* via /etc/udev/ 
> rules.d/
> (and add myself to this group).

If you have udev running, that does sound like a better option.

> or run pd as root.

That is far, far worse than the root group.  That gives you complete  
r/w access to everything.  Quite a bit different than the root  
group.  I definitely do not recommend that at all.

> or run w98

You must be joking =D

.hc

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