https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235059 ------- Comment #7 from rschiele@gmail.com 2007-01-15 12:56 MST ------- Ludwig, I agree with you that allowing access to all parport devices by default is not a very good idea but 1. there should be a documented way (example config file) how a sysadmin can setup this _in an easy way_ if he likes to have it that way, 2. I can't see how you want to give access to the controller device directly --- contrary to USB devices from your example file these devices cannot be easily identified by probing for them, and 3. the documentation situation of all that hal/resmgr/udev is extremely bad, the way to "do things the right way" changes quite frequently in recent times without having appropriate migration documentation available --- for instance documentation for simple questions like "how can one grant access to a specific device in a persistent way" is just not available to the average sysadmin. --- Note that I don't claim it does not exist at all but it is (a) not in a place where the average user will expect to find it and (b) it's complexity level is not appropriate to answer these simple questions in an appropriate way. Actually I know a huge number of sysadmins that work around this hal/resmgr/udev stuff instead of making use of it and thus this is a regression for them compared to the old static device files. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.