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dave-gallagher · Post by **dave-gallagher** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:34 pm

Dlareh · Post by **Dlareh** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:22 am

Make them world readable.

dave-gallagher · Post by **dave-gallagher** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:25 am

Dlareh · Post by **Dlareh** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:28 am

Now that I'm not so sure about. Probably fine if this is an average desktop computer, but if you really want to be safe chgrp them to the "games" group and make them 660.

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:27 am

Instead of manually changing the permissions you should use a custom udev and then add users to the group you create as need. Here is an example:

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BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}=="c01d", NAME="input/MX510", GROUP="mygroup", MODE="664"

You can find the idVendor and IdProduct numbers using lsusb and in this example, add the user to the mygroup group and it will have those permissions. (read/write)
(You have to create the group also.)

dave-gallagher · Post by **dave-gallagher** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:03 pm

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:16 pm

dave-gallagher wrote:I ended up having to edit the udev configuration settings. Basically, udev would undo changes done on my mouse "event*" permissions.

1) cd /etc/udev/conf.d/rules.d
2) There should be a few udev configuration files here
3) Edit the one that starts with 50. (nano 50-udev.rules)
4) In the file, search for event, mice, and mouse.
5) Change the last permission bit from 0 or 4, to 6.
6) This essentially chmods the /dev/input/* devices so that a normal user can read and write to the devices.
7) Save, exit, reboot. Permissions changed.

Bad idea.

You should not modify this file as it will be overwritten on the next udev update.

You should make the entries in a lower number rule file and it will take precedence over the entries in 50-udev.rules.
(First matching entry is the one used.)

If for some reason it appeared the 50-udev.rules entry was overriding the lower file, double check to make sure the entry was right and was matching properly.