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man page with udev.permissions wildcard

udev Kay Sievers 1 participant 1 message Nov 19, 2003

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Hi Greg,
here is the permissions wildcard text for the man page.
Oh, my queue is emtpy now. I have to look at the TODO in the next few days :)

thanks,
Kay

07-udev.8-perissions-wildcard.diff
man page - mention wildcard support in udev.permissions

udev.8 renamed from udev/udev.8 +5 -2
@@ -116,13 +116,16 @@
 The file consists of a set of lines. All empty lines and
 lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored.
 .br
-Every line lists a device name followed by owner, group and permission mode. All values are separated by colons.
+Every line lists a device name followed by numeric owner, group and permission
+mode. All values are separated by colons. The name field may end with a
+wildcard to apply the values to a whole class of devices.
 .sp
 A sample \fIudev.permissions\fP might look like this:
 .sp
 .nf
 #name:user:group:mode
-ttyUSB1:root:uucp:0666
+ttyUSB1:0:8:0660
+video*:500:500:0660
 dsp1:::0666
 .fi