Re: is there a udevtab or similar?

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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Tim O'Callaghan
<tim.ocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> udevtab in this context is a tool similar to the 'crontab' tool, where
> a user can edit his personal udev list. Specifically I am looking for
> a tool that will allow me to add arbitrary personal udev rules that
> can be managed without root privileges.
>
> I've been poking about, but cannot find anything. Any pointers?

There's no such tool, but it also seems like a really bad idea to
allow unprivileged users to do arbitrary things with the udev database
which runs as root. Here's some trivial examples:

SUBSYSTEM=="block", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="*", RUN+="/bin/rm -rf /"

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Dan
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