why is /dev/cdrom owned by root:disk after installation?
(okay, now I know why my previous two attempts at getting this throug
have failed: wrong email address)
Hi,
I have installed Debian a few time (Woody as well as Sarge). Each time I
notice that after installation, my CDROM device /dev/cdrom is linked to
/dev/hdc. But /dev/hdc is owned by root:disk.
After some research on google and mailing lists, I always reach the
conclusion that to make any user able to use the CDROM properly, the
ownership of /dev/hdc need to be changed to root:cdrom, and all users
need to be made members of the 'cdrom' group. Making the users members
of 'disk' group is vehementlyl discouraged, apparently it is not a good
practice from security point of view.
So why is it the CDROM devices are owned by root:disk? If we always have
to change (at leat I have to, and from newsgroups many other people have
to too) the ownership to root:cdrom, and make all users members of cdrom
group (after all, what other purpose is a CDROM for if not for the use
of the users?), why do the developers not take this into account and
configure the CDROM device accordingly and *not* make it owned by
root:disk but by root:cdrom? And make all users members of the "cdrom"
groups when they are created? Am I missing something here?
->HS
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