Burning / rights problems

Patrick Moelands patrickmoelands at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 12:38:11 UTC 2007


2007/6/11, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>:
> I'm still using FC6, myself, ond on FC6 at least all the device aliases are
> simply symlinks, and the real device (in my case /dev/hdc) is owned by the
> desktop user.  So if F7 works the same way, I'd expect that /dev/sg* would
> be owned by the desktop user, but perhaps F7's Fast User Switching does it
> differently?

The links are owned by root with FC7. And created dynamically on (re) boot.
So changing permissions only works until the next reboot.

Using /etc/rc.local is a good workaround.
Adding "chmod o+r+w /dev/sg*" does the trick.

Regards,
Patrick Moelands




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