Set perms on attach of USB umass disk

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:53:00AM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote:
> I've been trying (and failing) to figure out how to adjust ownership
> or permissions of a USB memory stick on device attach.
>
[snip]
> I've tried altering devfs.conf but this appears to only work for
> devices that are attached at startup of devfs.
[snip]

As a matter of fact, this is documented in the devfs.conf manual page.
This will also tell you where to look;

> What's the right way to handle this?

You'll have to use devfs.rules. See 'man devfs.rules'

The fact that there are two configuration files is a bit confusing. But
that is because of the way removable devices are handled.

Roland
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