[mythtv-users] myth cant access video folder on usb drive

[Anthony Giggins]

> After recently upgrading from Ubuntu gutsy to Hardy I am finding that
> the usb hard drive I have video on is no longer able to be accessed by
> myth (.21)  Path is correct (never changed it) video folder contents
> just does not show up when I choose it from the video menu. no errors in
> logs either.  Looking at the permissions its owned by root (obviously),
> but group and others access is listed as none.  Now I dont know if it
> was that way before or not, but I do know thats the problem... I GUESS?
> ~ Its weird because I can access the files on the drive under my login,
> but myth cant do anything with them....
>
> anyone else have this problem yet?  and how would one go about changing
> permission to a usb device every time its plugged in?

You can probably use udev rules to do this

http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

I wish I could work out howto blacklist a usbhid device using udev :(