Comment # 9 on bug 1232044 from Valentin Lefebvre

(In reply to Giacomo Comes from comment #8)
> Using:
>   PrivateDevices=true
>   DeviceAllow=char-ipmidev rw
> does not work. After further investigation I found that it is because in the
> new /dev mount created by PrivateDevices=true /dev/ipmi0 is missing.
> I did try with the line:
>   DeviceAllow=/dev/ipmi0 rwm
> but still /dev/ipmi0 is missing from the /dev mount.
> 
> Any suggestions?

It seems that the mount should be done by the kernel module
ipmi_(ipmi_devintf/ipmi_msghandler).
Could you try to manualy check with the ipmitool ? Should be:

ipmitool -I open chassis status

Maybe there will be more information. If not, what is the output of
dmesg | grep -i ipmi
?