udev not updating usb permissions and group

Question

I am using ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Locid Lynx. I have a requirement to set specific group and permissions for any usb stick file/directories on mount. I have tried overwriting the udev rules. Here is what I have done:

1. Created 99-test.rules under /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory with content as SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",GROUP="tomcat6",MODE="0777",NAME="test"
2. sudo service udev restart

Now when I mount the usb stick and run 'sudo blkid', it prints

/dev/test: UUID="002A-0AA5" TYPE="vfat"

But the ls -l /media/ gives back

drwx------ 4 admin admin 8192 1969-12-31 16:00 002A-0AA5

It seems that above rule from 99-test.rules is getting applied but getting overwritten afterwards, thus changing group and permissions back to some default value. What is it I am missing here? Do I have to change anything else?

Answer 1

This works for me:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",KERNEL=="sd?1",GROUP="adm",MODE="0777",SYMLINK+="test"

• I don't know why, but ACTION== stopped the rule from working at all.

• The kernel rule was necessary to avoid a conflict between the stick and the stick's partition, I suspect that was the problem you were seeing.

• The symlink is to get rid of an error message about a conflict between the kernel device name and the rule device name. You get a /dev/test that has a symlink to /dev/sdb1, or such.

On 12.04 restarting udev wasn't necessary when testing the rule. Error messages were logged at /var/log/syslog, so I used tail -f /var/log/syslog as I mounted the USB drive to watch for them.

You may wish to add more tests so you can limit your rule to just the drive(s) you want /dev/test to map to in case you might plug a camera or other device in simultaneously with you memory stick.

Answer 2

Try to add ACTION=="add" as trigger for that rule.