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I run halevt as a user, everything is good, I get a mount point, I can access the device, etc. It would be nice to run it as a service using the halevt init script, but in that case, the device doesn't get a mount point, and the user doesn't have access to the device. Is there anyway to make this work for the user who is logged in?
on my system halevt runs as user root and group plugdev when started by root as a daemon. In this case I get a mountpoint but cannot get writeaccess to the device as a normal user. This is configured in the halevt initscript you refer to.
I think, how to change this depends on your distribution. Roughly speaking: the halevt-deamon must run as a group to which the user belongs as well.
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