[argyllcms] Re: udev/ConsoleKit and device permissions under Linux
- From: Frederic Crozat <fred@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:10:02 +0100
2010/1/26 Roland Mas <lolando@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still trying to get to the bottom of the device file permission
> system. The new rules seem to work fine so far, but I'd like to be
> sure it's not a quirk.
>
> libusb/55-Argyll.rules currently tests for /lib/udev/udev-acl, delegates
> permissions to it if it exists, and uses the static "plugdev" group
plugdev is "debian" specific IIRC
> otherwise. From my understanding, there are three possible scenarios:
>
> 1. Recent udev with udev-acl, ConsoleKit is also present.
> 2. Recent udev, but no ConsoleKit.
> 3. “Old” udev.
If you don't have consolekit support, it usually mean you didn't built
acl support in udev so udev-acl isn't installed on the system.
This is what I suggested to Graeme when we tried to get a "work
everywhere" udev rules.
--
Frederic Crozat
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