Permission problems with usbfs

[George Andreou]

Tsabros Leonidas wrote:
> geia sas,
> 	Xrisimopoio edo kai ligo kero tin pirina 2.6.4 kai antimetopizo ena provlima 
> pleon me to usbfs(to proin usbdevfs). Ithela na xrisimopoihso kapoio usb mp3 
> player ( to nomad jukebox ) sigekrimena kai na prospathiso na xrisimopoihso 
> ena library poy kikloforei gia siskeves tetoioy tipoy. To provlima moy einai 
> to eksis, oti to /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD den exoyn write permissions, opote 
> boro na vro tin antistoixi siskevi alla oxi kai na tin anoikso san apls user. 
> Afoy diavasa prosektika ta antistoixa arxeia sto linux/Documentation leei
> oti i entoli mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb -o defaults,devmode=666 ( i se 
> antistoixi grammi sto fstab) tha dinei read/write permissions se oloys toys 
> xristes. Emena afti i entoli giati den doylevei katholoy ? Mipos iparxoyn kai 
> alla permissions pu prepei na elegkso? H en logo library (libnjb) 
> xrisimopoiei to API tis libusb.
> 
> Efxaristo.
> 

Issue the command (as root):

       mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb
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(from the kernel Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt)


* NONE * NONE * NONE * NONE * NONE *

mount -t usbfs NONE /proc/bus/usb -o defaults,devmode=0666



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George Andreou
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