Richard Hughes wrote:
# Huey ATTR{idVendor}=="0971", ATTR{idProduct}=="2005", MODE="666" (other devices here, perhaps 4 or 5)
Hi, the most elegant solution I've come across is on Mandriva 2008, where by default anyone logging in on the console gets permission to read & write to USB devices. The user experience is then comparable to OS X and MS Windows - plug in and go. The above seems to be a udev config, but I was told that this is not the current way of doing this, and that instead PolicyKit is the current "Linux Way". See <http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/Installing_Linux.html#PolicyKit> Frederic Crozat wrote:
I've just modified it in Mandriva Linux 2010.0 to use new ACL available in udev : MODE="666" for each line should be replaced by ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"
The problem I have is that if I present a udev config that uses a new feature such as this, how do I recommend it's use ? Exactly what systems is this going to work on, or how does one tell what systems it's going to work on ? [My conclusion about all this is that the only semi-reliable way of making an application easy to install on Linux will be to write an installer that can snoop around and decide what to modify to make the instruments accessible. Yuck, but there you are.] cheers, Graeme Gill.