CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and device permission

[Paul Howarth]

Francois Ouellette wrote:
>>Can we set something in HAL to make sure the device entry always allows
>>access to others?
>>
>>From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>>Subject: Re: CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and device permission
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com
>>
>>The device should come up with permissions 0600 *but* owned by the user
>>logged in at the console, so that user can access the device but nobody
>>else can.
>>
>>Do you want multiple users to be able to access the drive, or just the
>>console user, who is likely to be the only one that has physical access
>>to the drive?
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> The device always turns out to be owned by root... I use 2 user names this
> machine apart from root.

Is there a symlink being created ?:

/dev/cdwriter -> hdc

Also what is the /etc/fstab entry for /dev/hdc ?

Mine's (all one line):
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto 
pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0

Paul.