Am 23.12.2016 um 18:54 schrieb Nimrod:
> Hi,
>
> sorry for this trivial question, but I really tried to find an answer on
> the web without any result.
>
> This is the issue: on a computer at home (shared among relatives, each
> with his/her own account), the first user that logs in after boot locks
> the cdrom drive, and any other user that logs in can't eject the cdrom:
> only the first user can eject it.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this? Being a home computer there are no privacy
> issues: the cdrom drive is used just for CD ripping or burning, there's
> no reason to prevent each other access to the unit.
Does it help if you mount the cdrom as shared?
See https://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html →
UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED
No, it doesn't. The disk is already mounted in a shared directory, but its name is "/media/<user>/CDROM", and permissions are restricted to <user> only, where <user> is the one who first logged in the Gnome desktop.