Changeset ad897739 for chapter08/eudev.xml

Timestamp:

04/10/2023 10:30:10 PM (15 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib

Children:

eac5d6f

Parents:

70617e8 (diff), a4b0c6d (diff)
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Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

File:

• chapter08/eudev.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/eudev.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Eudev</title>
-
-    
 
     <para>First fix the location of udev rules in the .pc file:</para>
@@ -158 +156 @@
 
     <indexterm zone="conf-eudev">
+      <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules">/etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+
+    <para>
+      The default udev rule installed by Eudev would allow all users to
+      access <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>.  The editors
+      consider it dangerous.  Create a configuration file to override it:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal>KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+    <indexterm zone="conf-eudev">
       <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary>
     </indexterm>