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Re: CD Burner Permissions



On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 08:28, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'll try to repost this now that I'm no longer munging my PGP state.
> I've forgotten how I set my user accounts so they can burn CD's as
> mortals.  I'm adding a new user, and these are the steps so far taken:
> adduser jane
> <snip> - normal account stuff.
> 
> From /etc/fstab:
> /dev/scd0 /cdr iso9660 ro,defaults,users,noauto 0 0
> 
> ls -l /dev/scd0
> brwxrwxrwx    1 root     cdrom     11,   0 Feb 11  2001 /dev/scd0
> 
> So - adduser jane cdrom
> 
> Completes normally, but still no permission to write to drive.  I seem
> to remember that there are different /dev/ entries, one for reading and
> one for writing, and I can't remember what the one for writing is so
> that I can add poor jane to the correct group.  It seems to be
> brainfarts all around for me lately.

Try looking into the sg device permissions.

--mike




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