On Tuesday 08 February 2005 14:43, Paul Howarth shaped the electrons to say: > Scott Ryan wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:56, Paul Howarth shaped the electrons to say: > >>He's already got k3b; he's looking for k3bsetup, which is not part of > >>the Fedora k3b package because it *should* not be needed on a system > >>like FC3 with udev to set the device permissions properly. The idea is > >>that the CD writer device gets its ownership changed to the console user > >>when they log in. > > > > Im sure that this is the reason that I cannot mount my cd/dvd device as > > well. What must my hd* look like in > > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions? > > You don't need to make changes to this file. What you need is for udev > to create the symlink /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/hdX (where hdX is you CD > writer device); /etc/security/console.perms then specifies that any > device of that name should be owned by the user logged in at the console. > > Are you getting a link /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/hdX created at boot time? Yes -> ls -al cdwriter lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 8 06:45 cdwriter -> hdc > > Is /dev/hdX changing ownership when someone logs in at the console? No. -> cat /etc/security/console.perms | grep cdrom <cdrom>=/dev/cdrom* /dev/cdroms/* /dev/cdwriter* /mnt/cdrom* <console> 0600 <cdrom> 0660 root.disk > > Paul. -- Scott Ryan Telkom Internet
