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  1. Bug #217550
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 217550

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Tom Helner (duffman) wrote :

Looking at a Gutsy system I found what has changed. On gutsy udev would assign group rights of "plugdev" to USB portable storage, and Hardy is assigning "disk".

It looks like the following line in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules is the culprit:
ATTRS{type}=="0", GROUP="disk"
This line is new in Hardy. After commenting it out I now get the expected permissions:

brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 16 2008-04-29 11:06 /dev/sdb
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 17 2008-04-29 11:06 /dev/sdb1