<br>Thanks, that did it. For future reference, I added the lines<br><br><event>=/dev/input/event*<br><console> 0600 <event> 0666 root<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">to /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-
default.perms so now all users are allowed to read and write event devices.<br><br>On 16/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fernando Lopez-Lezcano</b> <<a href="mailto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu">nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:03 +0000, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>
><br>> I'm using Fedora core 4 and am using a joystick to interface with<br>> SuperCollider. The problem is that /dev/input/event3 - the device<br>> corresponding to the joystick - is always created with permissions
<br>> such that only root can read from it. (for some reason SuperCollider<br>> doesn't like /dev/input/js0, which does have the correct permissions)<br>> What is the correct way to change the default permissions of a device?
<br>> I currently have a boot script that changes them but if I unplug the<br>> joystick and plug it in again the device gets re-created with the<br>> wrong permissions again.<br><br>The files to tweak are in /etc/security/console.perms.d/, you can either
<br>change what's there or add a file with what you need. See "man<br>console.perms" for more details.<br><br>-- Fernando<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>