Re: [gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and 
> permissions?
>
> zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/
> total 0
> crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb  8  2007 lp0
>
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says:
>
> [...]
> # usb devices
> KERNEL=="hiddev*",              NAME="usb/%k"
> KERNEL=="auer*",                NAME="usb/%k"
> KERNEL=="legousbtower*",        NAME="usb/%k", GROUP="usb"
> KERNEL=="dabusb*",              NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k", GROUP="lp"
> [...]
>
> I would expect /dev/usb/lp0 to belong to group "lp", so which other config 
> file tells udev to put it under these onwer/group and permissions?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> 	Alex
>   

Something fishy somewhere.  Here is mine:

> root@smoker / # ls -l /dev/usb/
> total 0
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Jan  9 03:59 lp0
> root@smoker / #  

Not sure why but I don't think I have changed anything.  Maybe one of
your rules was changed or not updated somehow.

Dale

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