k3b

[Scott Ryan]

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 14:43, Paul Howarth shaped the electrons to say:
> Scott Ryan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:56, Paul Howarth shaped the electrons to 
say:
> >>He's already got k3b; he's looking for k3bsetup, which is not part of
> >>the Fedora k3b package because it *should* not be needed on a system
> >>like FC3 with udev to set the device permissions properly. The idea is
> >>that the CD writer device gets its ownership changed to the console user
> >>when they log in.
> >
> > Im sure that this is the reason that I cannot mount my cd/dvd device as
> > well. What must my hd* look like in
> > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions?
>
> You don't need to make changes to this file. What you need is for udev
> to create the symlink /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/hdX (where hdX is you CD
> writer device); /etc/security/console.perms then specifies that any
> device of that name should be owned by the user logged in at the console.
>
> Are you getting a link /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/hdX created at boot time?
Yes

-> ls -al cdwriter
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Feb  8 06:45 cdwriter -> hdc
>
> Is /dev/hdX changing ownership when someone logs in at the console?

No.

-> cat /etc/security/console.perms | grep cdrom
<cdrom>=/dev/cdrom* /dev/cdroms/* /dev/cdwriter* /mnt/cdrom*
<console>  0600 <cdrom>      0660 root.disk

>
> Paul.

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Scott Ryan
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