udevrd

Work in progress.

lacks the tagging, needed by libinput. I'm currently trying to circumvent the imho fiddly separation of device nodes, and libudev tags into several directories.

There should be a more obvious way. Furthermore, documentation of libinput is lacking.

Fixed device paths, e.g. for input, would be way more convenient.

Summary

A slim resource friendly udevd daemon.

Generically implemented, the daemon could be used to watch all sorts of directories recursively and change owner, group, access rights, create links, or execute actions on file creation or deletion.

Less than 12kB linked statically with minilib. Uses the inotify interface.

Supports:

changing device access rights, group and owner on startup and device creation
execution of commands on device creation and removal, optional with a different uid/gid
optional logging to the kernel printbuf, logfile or stderr
colorized output
utilizes inotify and vfork
pattern matching for the device rules

About:

The udevrd daemon supervises the /dev directory. Access rights, owner and group of the devices are set according to patterns, given in a config file. In addition, symbolic links can be created, and commands can be executed on device creation and removal. (e.g. mount a usbstick when inserted)

Since this process in the normal usecase runs for the whole uptime,
a slim udevrd has it's advantages. 

It would be possible to compile the daemon with minilib to not use any
dynamic allocations. (Albite the dynamic memory usage might stay in the normal
usecase below one pagesize of 4kB)

Usage:

udevrd [-c config] [-e] [-B]
	
	The udev daemon

	-c 'config': use an alternative config file (default: /etc/udevrd.conf.bin)
	-e : Use an into udevrd itself embedded config file
	-d : debug output to stdout
	-B : daemonize and go into background



udevrd-update.sh [inputfile] [outputfile]
  
	Update the binary config file [outputfile] (default: /etc/udevrd.conf.bin)
	from the settings found in [inputfile] (default /etc/udevrd.conf)
	and trigger udevrd to reload its config.
	
	uid's and gid's are translated to its numerical presentation, in order
	to save a few kilobytes for udevrd and to prevent the need to have a
	passwd and group file accessible to udevrd.

	Therefore the configuration file has to be compiled for every system
	with different users and groups again.



udevrd-appendconfig.sh [inputfile] [udevrd-path]

	(Optional)

	Embedd the binary configfile (default /etc/udevrd.conf.bin)
	in the udevrd daemon (default /sbin/udevrd)
	Either the argument -e to udevrd triggers loading the embedded
	configuration, or udevrd tries to resort onto the embedd configuration
	when he cannot load the supplied (-c) config file, 
	or the file /etc/udevrd.conf.bin doesn't exist.

Configuration:

	The configuration is done with the configuration file udevrd.conf.
	This is a simple shell script; the supplied example is documented.

	When the binary configuration is compiled with udevrd-update.sh,
	the config file is sourced with sh.
	It is possible to source from this script other configuration files,
	test for different systems, and so on.

	The devices are matched with the "match" function of minilib.
	Essentially, it is a simple expression engine, which matches straight
	from left to right. 
	Wildcards: 
		* match any count of chars 
		+ match 1 or more chars 
		? match one char
		\d digit 
		\D no digit 

	Signal udevrd with SIGUSR1 to reload the configuration file,
	or with SIGUSR2 to load the configuration embedded into udevrd itself.
	(`killall -SIGUSR1 udevrd`)

	Please have a look into the reference of minilib for further 
	documentation on 'match', and the example configuration file.

https://github.com/michael105/minilib/blob/master/doc/reference/regex.asc#match

(Partial) Example of the patternmatching and configuration

# 	matchmode match owner:group access link execute (user:binary) log	exec on remove
# match directories
match	'dir>'	'/dev/input*'	root:input	0750
match 'dir' 	'/dev/shm'  	root:shm	0770
match 'dir+'	'/dev/snd'  	root:audio	0750
match 'dir' 	'/dev/pts'  	root:root	0755
# don't recurse into any other subdir
match	'dir-'	'/dev/*'

# match devices
match x 	'/dev/sdb1'	root:usb	0660	/dev/usbstick	micha:mountusb.sh "usbstick inserted" 
match x 	"/dev/sdb*"	root:usb	0660		
match x 	"/dev/sdc*"	root:usb	0660		
match x 	'/dev/sd*'	root:disk	0660
match x 	'/dev/input/by-path/*event-mouse'	root:input	0660	/dev/input/touchpad
match x 	'/dev/input/by-path/*event-kbd'		root:input	0660	/dev/input/keyboard
match x 	'/dev/input/*'	root:input	0660
match x 	'/dev/snd/*'  	root:audio	0660
match x 	'/dev/mixer'  	root:audio	0660
match x 	'/dev/tty'    	root:tty	0666
#match x	'/dev/tty*'   	root:tty	0660
#match x	'/dev/pts*'   	root:tty	0666

Compilation:

	`make`
	(within the minilib project hierarchy)

	`make install`

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Based on minilib, Copyright (c) 2012-2021, Michael (misc) Myer (misc.myer@zoho.com, www.github.com/michael105) Donations welcome: Please contact me. All rights reserved. The licensing terms of minilib are in the file LICENSE.minilib. (Opensource, free to use with attribution)

michael105 / udevrd