| Bill Jonas on Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:44:53 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:54:06PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 10:54 am, Bill Jonas wrote: > > # ln -s hdb /dev/cdrom > > Now I am more confused. Sorry, I sent the above rather hastily before I understood the full ramifications of the problem. Please ignore. :) > Also, the owner is not root, but arthur (my username), and the read > and right permissions are for user only, not the disk group. I've noticed that on a RedHat system I have at work the CD-ROM device file (/dev/scd0 in my case, as it's an IDE CD burner[1]) will have my UID as its owner. I don't know if this is because of RedHat's annoying automounter or because I logged in (and ran X from KDM (or XDM or GDM, I'm not sure)). (I just checked on a RH system here, and it appears to be caused by logging in while physically at the machine. Yet another interesting "feature".) So no, don't bother changing the ownership and permissions on the CD-ROM device, as it'll just get changed the next time someone logs in at the (physical) console. [1] Why the hell does Linux require CD burners to be emulated SCSI devices? It's really bloody annoying. At least one of the BSDs, FreeBSD, doesn't need that; burncd(1) claims/seems to work just fine on IDE devices, not. (For SCSI devices, they provide cdrecord(1).) Hmm, I wonder how hard it would be to port this... -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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