On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:18:19PM -0500, John Porubek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably easiest just to use GID 1000, which you're already in. Try > > this (as root): > > > > umount /proc/bus/usb > > mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb -o devgid=1000,devmode=0664 > > > > If you want to tidy things up later, you might like to make a "usb" > > group, add yourself to it and have usbfs mounted with the GID of > > the "usb" group. > > > > As it turns out, I was using the right GID but the wrong mount point. > Under Ubuntu 9.10, instead of "/proc/bus/usb", I had to use > "/dev/bus/usb". Also, I had to add my UID to the mount options > (devuid=1000). I haven't made a "usb" group yet, but I think I will. > > Now if I only could make this stick across reboots. As I understand > it, one would normally use fstab to apply mounts at bootup. However, > I'm not sure if that applies here, or, if it does, how to do it. Any > ideas?
If the init scripts consult /etc/fstab when mounting procfs, you could add a line like this: none /dev/bus/usb usbfs devuid=1000 0 0 I haven't tried this, however. - Daniel
