From: Tormod V. <lis...@gm...> - 2015-10-01 13:42:02
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Anil Nair wrote: > Thanks that was exactly what I was looking for. I didn't want to use > "sudo" or any root privileges for that matter.I wanted to achieve this > from user level. I added "sudo" just in case, to prevent confusion if you would try "lsusb -v" and not see the strings. If a user has permissions to retrieve those strings using libusb_get_string_descriptor() the same user can see them with "lsusb -v" without sudo because your typical lsusb simply uses libusb_get_string_descriptor_ascii() itself to read them (barring any funny access permission tricks like suid or similar). > > Also thanks for the link for information regarding USB descriptors. :) Just read the whole book :) Tormod |