From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LKf99-0006sM-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:37:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AF57E05F8; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1A4E05F8 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so22417643qwc.10 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:36:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9lx9nm4N/mquxHFhYkSJw9ymg2dE3OpjYAn0DPaYMxU=; b=psLd3rXIT+iwNEp7yy2mSQgCLZxrCSoyU3oPcdaYdl8lziMgPPEb5TScp8FefgDUhi egDxUTdN4xgn3zhnDgx3ZgFPbWbOBfehDBGavW9pyAji/w5YmRyoMFx64fSq2Lk/LZlR J+B7jhZqCqEc9bhfUQur9BtBiiYN70J0S27sY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=B5mOqkRU5Jsa+6XSBM2fAO8+u5+cif2ATmhxS0QJyWfcOlWGA57wmrx2v0ipDJxqJf Bn5b6sU4ioOt1CIgnJZQpqcyWbHrHYbzP1I6qjS4deqWdGnVsozLlObEb/yNHrQHqNpF mJeIOS3/SoD8HLZ5UtmrDP0Ccz36Z89oVPTzk= Received: by 10.214.26.7 with SMTP id 7mr20362667qaz.91.1231360618257; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.84.182? (dialup-4.231.84.182.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.84.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 26sm30264304qwa.40.2009.01.07.12.36.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:36:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49651265.7010907@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:36:53 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/ References: <20090107142956.GB5477@revolver> <4964E9DA.4050408@gmail.com> <200901071949.06029.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901071949.06029.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2feb78da-6170-4b41-a466-98b4295a1fa0 X-Archives-Hash: 8655c40f11a3063df3760fab0943177f Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 19:43:54 Dale wrote: > > >> I have never did this but since /sys is populated during bootup, >> anything you change by hand will not survive a reboot. I would think >> you would have to find out what creates the file and then get it to >> create it with the permissions you want. I'm not sure but could udev be >> doing this? >> > > > Yes. > > > So sounds like he should find and edit the udev rule or make his own rule and set the permissions like he wants. Also, could he change just this one file in /sys and not have security concerns? Whenever the OP comes back, he's got some catching up to do. LOL Dale :-) :-)