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rfcomm nodes should be created with dialout group

Bug #368109 reported by Valentin Longchamp on 2009-04-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	udev (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: udev

When I register a rfcomm device on my system, it is created as a root:root device node. The correct behaviour should be root:dialout, as for instance /dev/ttyUSB*.

I have written a direct solution by adding a new udev rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/ attached to this bug.

A patch would be to change this line in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:

# serial
KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout"

to:

# serial
KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout"

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Valentin Longchamp (longfield) wrote on 2009-04-27:

Direct solution with new udev rule. Edit (41 bytes, text/plain)

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2009-04-28: Re: [Bug 368109] Re: rfcomm nodes should be created with dialout group

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Kay Sievers (kaysievers) wrote on 2009-04-28:

Applied to upstream git.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-05-07:

This bug was fixed in the package udev - 141-2+git4a74214

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udev (141-2+git4a74214) karmic; urgency=low

  * Update to GIT HEAD:
    - bugfixes. LP: #369817, #368109.
    - libudev allows you to subscribe to udev events, and filter those
      based on system, etc.
    - extras/cdrom_id/cdrom_id.c: Add a new key ID_CDROM_MEDIA=1 if there
      is a CD present. Also, skip media tests if CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS !=
      CDS_DISC_OK.
    - rules/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules: Only start vol_id if
      ID_CDROM_MEDIA is set. This should fix the auto-closing of the tray.
      (LP: #356631)

  * Remove /dev/MAKEDEV symlink on upgrade.
  * Remove /dev/kmem device node, this is disabled in our kernels and
    will be created anyway if the module is loaded from a kernel compiled
    with it enabled.

  * The vol_id binary and libvolume-id library are no longer built by
    this package. Software should use the blkid binary and libblkid
    library supplied by the util-linux source package instead.
  * Add Breaks on packages that were using vol_id with our blessing.

-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Thu, 07 May 2009 12:48:24 +0100