Setting up USB on Ubuntu 7.04

Contributed by Ibrahim Ben Faruhn, 2007/06/14

After I had a taken a look into the insides of Ubuntu 7.04, I managed to get VirtualBox's USB-Support in that system in such a way that the user only needs to be a member of a group called usbusers. This howto describes how I did it.

Basically, you just have to tell Ubuntu that a group called usbusers should have read and write access to all usb devices.

1. Create a group called usbusers

2. Add yourself to this group

3. Edit the file /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules (for this, you must have administrative privileges)

3.1 Search for the following lines

# USB devices (usbfs replacement)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",                    MODE="0664"

3.2 Change them to the following

# USB devices (usbfs replacement)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="usbusers", MODE="0664"

4. Restart udev:

   sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
   

5. You should now have write access to all usb devices.