xcdroast and k3b non-root permissions?
Matthew Rex
mrex at iinet.net.au
Mon Mar 28 14:16:33 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 23:25, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 19:06 +1000, Matthew Rex wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 18:21, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> > > Matthew Rex kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 28.
> > > maaliskuuta 2005 05:36):
> > > > I started looking at k3b - it also seems to only work when run
> > > > as root.
> > >
> > > Not true, it works fine as a regular user.
> >
> > As a regular user I see no devices under settings/configure/devices. As
> > root it recognises the CD writer...
>
> Do you have any symlinks for your CD writer device in /dev?
>
> $ ls -l /dev/cd*
>
> If not, it's likely that udev has not detected your drive as a CD-Writer
> and set up the device node with the appropriate permissions.
>
> What type of CD writer do you have and what device (in /dev) does it use
> when you run k3b etc. as root?
k3b detects a Sony crx160e writer at /dev/hdc (when run as root)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 28 21:25 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 28 21:25 /dev/cdwriter -> hdc
Are these permissions correct?
>
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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Matthew Rex
mrex at iinet.net.au
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