Re: chmod???? *Solved*
OK, sorry for not responding sooner. Turns out I wasn't looking at the symlink
to hdc, which was being changed. Thanks for all your help though.
Derek
Quoting Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@spring.luon.net>:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:45:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2004-04-27 17:20:01 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > The right way to do is probably to let the group unchanged and to
> > > > put yourself in the disk group.
> > >
> > > You should never put yourself in group disk. This gives you raw rw
> > > access to all your disk devices and partitions, which is very dangerous.
>
> > > Just change the group of the cdrom device to group cdrom
> >
> > OK, so why isn't it done by default?
>
> Because with a static /dev you can't know beforehand if a /dev/hdX will
> be a cdrom device or a normal harddisk. So to be on the safe side, the
> default is root.disk.
>
> With something like udev the permissions are ``correct'', because it has
> somewhat more information about the device.
>
> Sjoerd
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