Bug 172665 – sys-fs/udev-107-r1 - /dev/input/event* device nodes are not accessible for regular users

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2007-03-29 11:35:20 UTC]

amd@sl007 ~/code/winforms $ ls -l /dev/input/
kokku 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     80 29. märts 14:28 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    140 29. märts 14:28 by-path
crw------- 1 root root 13, 64 29. märts 10:28 event0
crw------- 1 root root 13, 65 29. märts 10:28 event1
crw------- 1 root root 13, 66 29. märts 10:28 event2
crw------- 1 root root 13, 67 29. märts 10:28 event3
crw------- 1 root root 13, 68 29. märts 10:28 event4
crw------- 1 root root 13, 69 29. märts 10:28 event5
crw------- 1 root root 13, 70 29. märts 14:28 event6
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 29. märts 10:28 mice
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 32 29. märts 10:28 mouse0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 33 29. märts 10:28 mouse1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 34 29. märts 14:28 mouse2

[Comment 1 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2007-03-29 11:35:44 UTC]

This is with sys-fs/udev-107-r1 

[Comment 2 Matthias Schwarzott 2007-03-29 15:50:16 UTC]

Did this change related to older versions, or tell me why this is a bug.

I love it when normal user X is not able to read what I type when I want to login as root.

[Comment 3 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2007-03-29 16:12:37 UTC]

Hmm.. I think you have a valid point.

Closing as INVALID.

[Comment 4 Matthias Schwarzott 2007-03-29 16:20:00 UTC]

One possible solution could be creating a group that can access input-devices.
Or you create special rules for some of them, for example like debian has to access the infra-red device on a dvb-card for group video:

KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", ATTRS{name}=="*dvb*|*DVB*|* IR *" \
                                MODE="0664",    GROUP="video"