From: Ville Skyttä Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:43:05 +0000 (+0200) Subject: correct default mode documentation in udev X-Git-Tag: 064~15^2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fe082a8a42baa45ef45d82edde4f893410ebeea;p=systemd correct default mode documentation in udev --- diff --git a/docs/writing_udev_rules/index.html b/docs/writing_udev_rules/index.html index 1ba43678..c2ccdc36 100644 --- a/docs/writing_udev_rules/index.html +++ b/docs/writing_udev_rules/index.html @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ Building on the style mentioned above, you can do even more flashy things. The u This prevents the need to excessively provide a GROUP="audio" key on every following rule which names sound devices.

-udev defaults to creating nodes with unix permissions of 0660 (read/write to owner and group), which is configured by the default_mode setting inside /etc/udev/udev.conf. There may be some situations where you do not want to use the default permissions on your device node. Fortunately, you can easily override the permissions in your rules using the MODE assignment key. As an example, the following rule defines that the inotify node shall be readable and writable to everyone: +udev defaults to creating nodes with unix permissions of 0660 (read/write to owner and group). There may be some situations where you do not want to use the default permissions on your device node. Fortunately, you can easily override the permissions in your rules using the MODE assignment key. As an example, the following rule defines that the inotify node shall be readable and writable to everyone: 
KERNEL="inotify", NAME="misc/%k", SYMLINK="%k", MODE="0666"
diff --git a/etc/udev/redhat/udev.rules b/etc/udev/redhat/udev.rules index 2d4819f8..5bed7822 100644 --- a/etc/udev/redhat/udev.rules +++ b/etc/udev/redhat/udev.rules @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # There are a number of modifiers that are allowed to be used in some of the # fields. See the udev man page for a full description of them. # -# default is OWNER="root" GROUP="root", MODE="0600" +# default is OWNER="root" GROUP="root", MODE="0660" # # all block devices