Re: Ownership of cdrom devices
[KS] wrote:
> smsiebe@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:23 am, [KS] wrote:
>>
>>
>>>$ ls -l /dev/hdc
>>>brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 22, 0 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdc
>>>
>>>$ ls -l /dev/hdd
>>>brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 22, 64 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdd
>>>
>>
>>It is default for media to be mounted as root. Try seeing if your user is
>>added to the 'cdrom' group (groups user_name). If not, add each user that
>>you want to have access to the cdrom without having to mount root.
>>
>>Alternativly, you can add 'user' to the options in /etc/fstab and reboot.
>>
>>If this doesn't help, please let me know.
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>
>
>
> I am in the cdrom group and in the floppy group too. But the wierd thing
> is why the /dev/hdc (cdrw) and /dev/hdd (dvdrw) have a group ownership
> of floppy! I saw something related to this in debian bugs. Will update
> if it is relevant.
>
> /KS
>
>
Bug 321276 seems to be the cause. It is fixed in udev version 0.068-1
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