Failures with cdrecord
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Jul 15 22:45:33 UTC 2006
Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> Permissions, my friend, permissions. I'm willing to bet that the device
> node in /dev (e.g. /dev/hdc) doesn't permit just anyone access to the
> device.
>
> You could edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and modify a couple of
> lines to change the permissions. Assuming it's an IDE drive, you can
> change the lines:
>
<-------------------[ Rules removed ]------------------------>
>
> In other words, append
>
> , MODE="0666"
>
> to the end of each of those lines. When the devices are created, this
> SHOULD set up the permissions to be 0666 (rw-rw-rw-) and therefore
> writable by anyone. Whether this is a wise thing to do, I leave to your
> discretion.
>
I think you might run into a problem with console.perms overriding
your settings as soon as someone does a local login. You may want to
take a look at /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms to see
how permissions are handled when someone logs in/out locally.
Mikkel
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