From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:41:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a1003090841s1b904e58mf41841ec40d8e620@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53e35fd51003090314w250da861la064a57c73703160@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not
> good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that
> i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery
> informatiion, etc.
>
> i am already in these groups: disk,wheel,audio,video,usb,haldaemon,plugdev.
>
> now, i cannot get notification when i plug a new usb device. my
> battery gadget says battery information is not available.
>
> all there stuffs works fine if i log in with root account.
Depending on your specific USB device you may need to edit UDEV rules
to set proper permissions on the device node. For example I had to do
that for normal users to read my digital camera.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 11:14 [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things Xi Shen
2010-03-09 11:24 ` Mick
2010-03-09 12:31 ` Xi Shen
2010-03-09 12:48 ` Mick
2010-03-09 14:05 ` Xi Shen
2010-03-09 16:41 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2010-03-10 1:21 ` Xi Shen
2010-03-10 9:05 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-10 11:28 ` Xi Shen
2010-03-10 11:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-10 11:54 ` Xi Shen
2010-03-10 15:27 ` Paul Hartman
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