Re: cant set group owner cdrom for link /dev/dvd

[David Jardine <david@jardine.de>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:44:29AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that a number of the video programs xine ogle etc
> like to use 
> /dev/dvd as a default
> 
> However they seem to also want the group permission to be
> cdrom... 
> 
> 
> Note when i do 
> ls -l /dev/hdc
> brwsrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2007-01-09 10:08 /dev/hdc
> 
> however when I do as root
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> 
> then i get 
> ls -l /dev/dvd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-01-09 10:08 /dev/dvd -> hdc
> 
> when i do 
> chmod root:cdrom /dev/dvd

Did you mean "chown"?

> 
> i still get 
> 
> ls -l /dev/dvd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-01-09 10:08 /dev/dvd -> hdc

Since the permissions are completely unrestrictive, there should
be no problem.  The group ownership of /dev/hdc is cdrom, so 
that looks all right too.  Are you having problems? 

David

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