Re: how do your hotplugd(8) scripts look? mine is messy and needs cleaning.

Manuel Giraud <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:29:58 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.misc
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Kirill A. Korinsky <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:11:58 +0200,
> Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2026-06-11, Alexandre Ratchov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'd suggest simply changing /dev/video* ownership to your user id,
>> > after each upgrade.
>> 
>> rc.local is not a bad place to do that.
>> 
>
> I think this is cleaner:
>
> ~ $ grep video /upgrade.site
> echo 'chown USER /dev/video*' >>/etc/rc.firsttime
> ~ $ 

For xenodm users, I thought that it was the work of
/etc/X11/xenodm/GiveConsole:

chown $USER:$GROUP /dev/video0

and /etc/X11/xenodm/TakeConsole:

chown root:wheel /dev/video0
-- 
Manuel Giraud