On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:51:56 -0400 (EDT) Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > If you wish to give them access to the hub device, why not? That's > > > a user space problem. > > > > So what governs the ability to do that - file permissions - in which case > > we have auth and that would explain the lack of auth checks or is there > > just no auth at all ? > > File permissions on the /dev/bus/usb device nodes. Setting these > permissions correctly isn't always easy to do. For some devices it's > safe to give write access to the console user at least, but for most > access should be restricted to root. Ok thats fine then and explains why there is no auth involved. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
