Package: udev
Version: 0.103-1
Severity: normal

The problem is related to tape backup programs as bacula which
could not access the media changers because of wrong group
perms (should have group tape.)

The problem could be solve by a short change on 
/etc/udev/permissions.rules eg. by adding new line for group tape.

spaceetch:/etc/udev# rcsdiff permissions.rules
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/permissions.rules,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -r1.1 permissions.rules
25a26
> SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{type}=="8",                         GROUP="tape"

I think that is the best way.

Another is more complex because media changers could have cdroms
instead of tape drives like NSM juke boxes:

1. New group e.g. mchangers.
2. Adding line mchanger in same way showing above.
3. Adding all users to group e.g. mchangers which need access to them.

This solution have impact on many other packages so I think the first
fix is for the first time the best way to solve the most problems.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
insgesamt 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  20 2006-12-13 17:26 020_permissions.rules -> 
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  13 2006-12-13 17:26 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  25 2006-12-13 17:26 z20_persistent-input.rules -> 
../persistent-input.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2006-12-13 17:26 z20_persistent.rules -> 
../persistent.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 562 2007-01-13 15:47 z25_persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 456 2006-12-13 17:25 z25_persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  33 2006-12-13 17:26 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules 
-> ../persistent-net-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12 2006-12-13 17:26 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 2006-12-13 17:26 z55_hotplug.rules -> 
../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  14 2006-12-14 23:02 z60_mt-st.rules -> ../mt-st.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  29 2006-12-13 17:26 z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules -> 
../cd-aliases-generator.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/dm-0/dev
/sys/block/dm-1/dev
/sys/block/dm-2/dev
/sys/block/dm-3/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hdb/dev
/sys/block/hdc/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc1/dev
/sys/block/loop0/dev
/sys/block/loop1/dev
/sys/block/loop2/dev
/sys/block/loop3/dev
/sys/block/loop4/dev
/sys/block/loop5/dev
/sys/block/loop6/dev
/sys/block/loop7/dev
/sys/block/md1/dev
/sys/block/md2/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sr0/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/ts0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg2/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0a/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0l/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0m/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/st0a/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/st0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/st0l/dev
/sys/class/scsi_tape/st0m/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dmmidi/dev
/sys/class/sound/midiC0D0/dev
/sys/class/sound/midi/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-0:1.0/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev

-- Kernel configuration:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.11      Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.32-3      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libvolume-id0                0.103-1     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-22      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

udev recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  udev/new_kernel_needed: false
  udev/reboot_needed:


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