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I have a dvb receiver card and want to give a user access to it. My udev rule looks like this:

SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", GROUP="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="pci", DRIVERS=="b2c2_flexcop_pci", GROUP="video"

The created device nodes have the correct permissions, yet their containing directory does not:

/dev/dvb/:
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drw-r-----  3 root root   60 Apr 30 18:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4460 Apr 30 18:53 ..
drw-r-----  2 root root  120 Apr 30 18:53 adapter0

/dev/dvb/adapter0:
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drw-r-----  2 root root     120 Apr 30 18:53 .
drw-r-----  3 root root      60 Apr 30 18:53 ..
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 Apr 30 19:12 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 Apr 30 19:12 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 Apr 30 19:12 frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 Apr 30 19:12 net0

How do I get udev to create the /dev/dvb and /dev/dvb/adapter0 directory to allow the "video" group full access?

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Add a chmod to a udev script? – Huckle Apr 30 '12 at 18:05
Well, yeah I could do that. But I was under the impression that udev should just dtrt here. – Andreas Moog Apr 30 '12 at 19:24
I've created a bug report over at bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993868 since I think this is an error in udev. – Andreas Moog May 3 '12 at 18:11

closed as off topic by jrg♦ May 21 '12 at 20:31

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