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From: Stefan Schweizer <sschweizer@gmail.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:11:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7963922041217021113fd3ef1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it>

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:31:15 +0100, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> -----
> 
> Subject: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks
> Reply-To: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>, 286040@bugs.debian.org
> From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
> 
> Package: udev
> Version: 0.048-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> A rule like
> 
>   BUS="scsi", SYSFS\{model\}="FLASH", KERNEL="sd?1", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="flash"
> 
> works, but a corresponding entry like
> 
>   flash:root:flash:0660
> 
> in a permissions.d file does not -- it tries to change the
> permissions of the symlink instead. Permissions on a symlink are
> irrelevant, so I suggest that udev instead follows the symlink
> before applying permissions.
> 

See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?ids064 for a patch
I think it is worth to implement this functionality.

Thanks,
Stefan


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17  8:31 Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 10:11 ` Stefan Schweizer [this message]
2004-12-17 10:48 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 13:24 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 13:40 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 13:45 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:47 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:49 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-17 13:56 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 13:58 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:13 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:19 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:20 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:35 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:36 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 14:42 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 14:45 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 14:52 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 15:50 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 16:14 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 16:45 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 17:10 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 17:45 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-17 18:33 ` Greg KH
2004-12-17 18:40 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-17 23:25 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-17 23:41 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18  0:25 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-18  0:53 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18  1:18 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18  3:04 ` Greg KH
2004-12-18  4:18 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-18  4:21 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-18  9:48 ` Stefan Schweizer
2004-12-18 12:33 ` Tobias Klauser
2004-12-18 13:04 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-19  4:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-20  9:39 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-20 17:56 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-20 18:04 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-20 19:05 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21  8:04 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:11 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 16:31 ` Lindsay Haisley
2004-12-21 16:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:48 ` Tobias Klauser
2004-12-21 16:54 ` Greg KH

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