USB devices only usable as root (PAM "upgrade", udev?)

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xiando · Post by **xiando** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:43 pm

I am no longer able to use USB devices such as my scanner and my camera as a normal user (works as root, but I would like to not have to run digikam and kooka and such as root).

The user is a member of the plugdev and usb groups.

I noticed this problem after "upgrading" to sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 (but I'm not sure that's what causes the problem).

How am I supposed to give a normal user permission to use USB devices these days / what could be the cause of USB being utterly broken if being a member of the "usb" group is still the correct way to give a normal user access to USB devices?

albright · Post by **albright** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:47 pm

did you carefully follow the directions about the
pam upgrade at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml?

xiando · Post by **xiando** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:31 pm

albright wrote:did you carefully follow the directions about the
pam upgrade at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml?

Yes. I do find it a bit strange that there is no mention of how permissions are actually set they used by be set by console.perms in previous versions, though.

I have no idea if not being able to use USB as non-root is because of pam or something else.

albright · Post by **albright** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:25 pm

can you manually set the permissions of the relevant /dev files
to get it working for users other than root? If so, a stop gap
is to put that into local.start

still smells like a pam problem to me; if you feel indulgent you
might re-emerge pam once again