On Jun 12, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Peter Plessas wrote:
Hi all,
don't know if this has been discussed already (found nothing in the
archives), but the devices of /dev/input/eventN are always set to
root:root (owner:group), so for using it i have to change it manually
every time to f.e. root:audio to access it. I think one could create a symlink whose permissions are permanent,
but [hid] seems to be hard-coded to /dev/input/eventN.
Or you could add yourself to the "root" group. The permissions of the
symlink will not replace the permissions of the actual device,
otherwise this would be a massive security hole, e.g. if you can't
access a file, just symlink to it with permissions that you want.
Any ideas? Perhaps a way to tell [hid] which file in the /dev tree to use?
The evdev module which drives the input events is also hard-coded to
/dev/input/eventX and the [hid] object only talks to those device
types, not jsX, mouseX, etc. devices. So it doesn't make a lot of
sense to me to have a run-time option to change this. You can always
change the device path in the source code and recompile it, you'd have
to do the same with the evdev module.
.hc
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