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Script and udev rule for setting group permissions on pin files for beaglebone black development
# Install in: /etc/udev/rules.d/
KERNEL=="gpio*", SUBSYSTEM=="gpio", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/usr/local/bin/set-pinuesrs-permissions.sh"
#!/bin/bash
#
# Place in /usr/local/bin/set-pinusers-permissions.sh
#
# This file will change the user, group and permissions in both the
# /sys/devices/virtual/gpio and /sys/class/gpio path directories. In particular,
# it will add a `pinusers` group to these files. By adding your user to this
# group, you will have access to those pin files.
#
# DO NOT change the order of the commands below, they are optimized so that
# commonly created files and directories are changed first.
#
chown -R :pinusers /sys/devices/virtual/gpio
chown -R :pinusers /sys/class/gpio
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "direction" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "edge" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "value" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "active_low" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
chmod 0220 /sys/class/gpio/export
chmod 0220 /sys/class/gpio/unexport
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "uevent" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "autosuspend_delay_ms" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
find /sys/devices/virtual/gpio -name "control" -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
# Additional code for getting AIN pins set up
ain_activator=/sys/devices/bone_capemgr.*
chown -R :pinusers $ain_activator/
chmod -R 2775 $ain_activator/
# Uncomment to have the AIN pins activated by default on boot
# echo cape-bone-iio > $ain_activator/slots
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the find command does not automatically follow symbolic links so it will not touch those files. Unfortunately just using the '-L' option to follow links also probably won't work due to filesystem reference cycles/loops.

I ended up with a for loop in a bash script to touch the direction, value, and edge files under each gpio during the 'add' event.

#!/bin/bash 

GPIODIR=/sys/class/gpio
FILES="direction value edge"

for d in $(ls $GPIODIR | grep gpio[000-999])
do
  d=$GPIODIR/$d #make an absolute path
  for f in $FILES
  do
    [ -f $d/$f ] && 
      chown :gpio $d/$f
      chmod ug+rw $d/$f
  done
done

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