gnomad2 needs superuser access

[John Griffin]

After gnomad2 is installed an entry is added to the gnome application menu under Sound & Video

After gnomad2 is installed an entry is added to the gnome application menu under Sound & Video. This launcher's command needs to be prefixed with 'gksudo' for it to talk to the mp3 player.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

What permissons are on that device?

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Anymore news on this bug? If the original poster doesn't reply we will close it. Thank you.

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

Please don't. if gnomad2 still needs root access, I'll prepend gksudo as stated.

[bowill (bowill)]

gnomad2 should not require superuser access.

When run with hotplug support, the /etc/hotplug/usb/nomadjukebox script adds group audio permission to the correct "file" under /proc/bus/usb/. It also adds world write permission, which I think is incorrect, but that's another issue.

The problem here is that with the switch to udev, the device (now under /dev/bus/usb/) is not set with either the correct group or the correct permission to match the model that was used before. The udev config appears to indicate that the nomadjukebox should be run for the device, but it isn't. I don't see any indication that udevd has received an event from the kernel when the nomad was plugged in. And even if it did receive the event and run the script, it won't work because the script expects the device file to be a regular file (which it was under /proc/bus/usb/) rather than a character file (which it is under /dev/bus/usb/).

[bowill (bowill)]

Oh ... and since you had asked ...

The device under /dev/bus/usb/ is owned by root, the group is root, and the permissions are 664, which appear to be the defaults for USB devices.

[bowill (bowill)]

Here is my modified /etc/hotplug/usb/nomadjukebox script.

It works for me on Dapper with udev, but should also work on a system that still uses hotplug.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Confirming, as there's a patch that would fix this.

[bowill (bowill)]

The version of libnjb5 in Debian Testing (2.2.5-3) has a udev fix. It sets the group for the njb device as audio and the perms as 0660 instead of running /etc/hotplug/usb/nomadjukebox.

This is a cleaner solution, I think, and it doesn't require the hotplug script for udev systems (though the script will always be installed, now that it's been moved into the main libnjb5 package).

Unfortunately, the new method will break current installations that have customized the nomadjukebox script in order to more carefully limit permissions.

[Dr.Felix Raekson (felix-raekson)]

Thank you
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 21:23 +0000, bowill wrote:
> The version of libnjb5 in Debian Testing (2.2.5-3) has a udev fix. It sets the group for the njb device as audio and the perms as 0660 instead of running /etc/hotplug/usb/nomadjukebox.
>
> This is a cleaner solution, I think, and it doesn't require the hotplug script for udev systems (though the script will always be installed, now that it's been moved into the main libnjb5 package).
>
> Unfortunately, the new method will break current installations that have customized the nomadjukebox script in order to more carefully limit permissions.
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[pbeeson (pbeeson)]

In edgy, I was having this problem. Instead of trying all the hotplug stuff above, I simply rebooted my machine and I could use gnomad2 as any user.

[Dr.Felix Raekson (felix-raekson)]

Thank you very much

On 11/28/06, pbeeson <email address hidden> wrote:
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> In edgy, I was having this problem. Instead of trying all the hotplug
> stuff above, I simply rebooted my machine and I could use gnomad2 as any
> user.
>
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> gnomad2 needs superuser access
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/354
>

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Best Regards
Dr.Felix Raekson

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

appears to be fixed (in debian and ubuntu)?

Please reopen if this is not the case

[Dr.Felix Raekson (felix-raekson)]

yes, it's fixed

On 3/16/07, Sarah Hobbs <email address hidden> wrote:
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> appears to be fixed (in debian and ubuntu)?
>
> Please reopen if this is not the case
>
> ** Changed in: gnomad2 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
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> gnomad2 needs superuser access
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/354
>

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Best Regards
Dr.Felix Raekson