First, I do not understand why I am having to ask this question. I am running as root, and root is part of the "plugdev" group.
I am trying to add a MagTek USB-Magstripe reader to my Linux system and it is not working. When I try and output >> to a file I get "permission denied". When I "cd /dev/usb" and "ls -la" I see:
crw------- 1 root root 180, 0 Jul 5 10:52 hiddev0
And I can chmod it to 666 or 777 but when I plug it back in it reverts back to its old permissions. So looking around the web I came up with the following from udevadm and created 99-rules.local in /etc/udev/rules.d :
SUBSYSTEM="usbmisc", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0002", ATTRS{serial}=="0000:04:00.0", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/chmod 777 /dev/$name"
"service udev restart" does not work, logging out does not work, rebooting my system does not work. Whatever I do this device defaults back to its old permissions.
Ideally, I would like ALL USB devices to be 755 by default. I don't understand why this is so difficult to achieve and why I can't do this by default anyway as root?
