Excerpts from Attila's message of Di Mär 10 18:51:15 +0100 2009:
Hi,
i use a script to prepare a bridged network for a kvm session and therefore i have this line in /etc/udev/rules.d/01-attila.rules:
KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="network"
After upgrading udev my file permissions of the new persistent /dev/net/tun looks so after booting up:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200 8. Mär 00:43 /dev/net/tun
I play with this lines in /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-my.permissions:
a) tun:root:network:0660 b) net/tun:root:network:0660
I reboot even after changing the line but there is no change. If i do a "modprobe tun" there be the right permissions:
crw-rw---- 1 root network 10, 200 8. Mär 00:43 /dev/net/tun
So my questions is how and/or where can i control the file permissions of the persistent devices from the new udev?
This is definitly not bad, i want more to know what i have overseen.-)
See you, Attila
This reminds of a problem Dusty had and discussed on forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60060 Result: the device node was created before the rule was applied. So maybe ... ? Good luck, Jan