sudo does not work with unbinding usb interface from usbhid driver
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sudo (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I was looking for a way to dump the HID report descriptor under Linux. For that purpose, I need to detach the kernel usbhid driver from the HID interfaces.
More detail in libusb mailing list archive.
http://
mcuee@Ubuntu804:~$ uname -a
Linux Ubuntu804 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 17:32:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
mcuee@Ubuntu804
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04f2:0760 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 006: ID ffff:0005
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c054 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 14c0:0008
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1947:0033
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
mcuee@Ubuntu804
1-3:1.0 1-5:1.0 1-7:1.0 1-7:1.1 bind module new_id uevent unbind
So far so good. But then there is error thereafter. Maybe this is a Ubuntu
specific problem.
mcuee@Ubuntu804
bash: unbind: Permission denied
mcuee@Ubuntu804
bash: unbind: Permission denied
It turns out that I need to enable root to be able to do the job.
mcuee@Ubuntu804
[sudo] password for mcuee:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
mcuee@Ubuntu804
1-3:1.0 1-5:1.0 1-7:1.0 1-7:1.1 bind module new_id uevent unbind
mcuee@Ubuntu804
Password:
root@Ubuntu804:~# cd /sys/bus/
root@Ubuntu804:
1-3:1.0 1-5:1.0 1-7:1.0 1-7:1.1 bind module new_id uevent unbind
root@Ubuntu804:
root@Ubuntu804:
Thanks, but this is not a bug. To do what you want to do, you need to do the following:
echo -n 1-7:1.0 | tee -a unbind
The reason for this is that the command sequence you are using is actually 2 commands. The first command is "sudo echo -n 1-7:1.0", which is ran as root and echos the character sequence you specified. The second command is "> unbind", which re-directs the output, but this is not running as root.