hello.

i am developping an application that needs to poll the device file: /dev/input/mice

i belong to a group that has no permission to read this file, so i use the following command:

sudo chgrp alexandre /dev/input/mice

(alexandre is the group that i belong...)

now, the problem is that when i restart the computer, i must do this command again, because it looses the changes i make.

how can i permanently change the access permission to this kind of device files? (preferably using this group method...)

thank you for your attention,

Alexandre

Which distribution are you using? Does it use udev?

sorry for not being specific.

i use Kubuntu 6.06

when I do a 'ls -l' i get:

crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2006-11-20 17:13 /dev/input/mice

when i type 'groups':

alexandre adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev lpadmin scanner admin

and then, to access the file:

sudo chgrp alexandre /dev/input/mice


...now, about the 'udev' i guess so because i have the latest kernel.