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Originally Posted by allovertheglobe
Ok, I've started to play around some more with prs500 et al. I'm using a recently updated Ubuntu install (Feisty Fawn). I installed the tools as per the instructions on Kovid's page, without any notable problems. (Unlike my attempt to get it to work in Edgy Eft by using a (botched) Python2.5 install)
As in my previous post, I need to SUDO all commands to work properly, but I think there are still some serious Permissions issues since everything seems to default to root ownership, which is frowned upon in normal use from what I understand.
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Add: I found out about a rather dangerous stunt, turning myself into root using sudo su, then running prs500-gui, that didn't work either.
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Ok, you should NOT have to run prs500 as root...
did you follow the instructions to set up udev and add your user to the group plugdev?
Put the following code into /etc/udev/rules.d/z90-prs500.rules
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="029b", SYSFS{idVendor}=="054c", MODE="66
Add yourself to the plugdev group
gpasswd -a username plugdev
you can either reboot completely or just restart udev and relogin
to restart udev:
sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
then log out completely and log back in again
open a terminal and type 'id', you should have plugdev as a group you belong to.
plug your reader in to the usb port and check that the node belongs to the group plugdev.
On my debian machine:
ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/
outputs:
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 0 2007-05-07 13:18 001
crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 189, 4 2007-05-07 14:30 005
id
outputs:
uid=1001(xxx) gid=1001(xxx) 20(dialout),25(floppy),29(audio),46(plugdev),100(u sers),107(fuse),1001(xxx)
I can now run prs500 and prs500-gui without being root.
The library.db that prs500-gui creates is owned by me.
Hope that helps,
Lee