On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 00:53 +1000, Matthew Rex wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 23:25, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > As a regular user I see no devices under settings/configure/devices. As > > > root it recognises the CD writer... > > > > Do you have any symlinks for your CD writer device in /dev? > > > > $ ls -l /dev/cd* > > > > If not, it's likely that udev has not detected your drive as a CD-Writer > > and set up the device node with the appropriate permissions. > > > > What type of CD writer do you have and what device (in /dev) does it use > > when you run k3b etc. as root? > > > > I meant to put this in the previous post: > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 28 21:25 /dev/hdc > > And /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions has "root:disk:0660" so > that looks right I think? The symlinks are being made in /dev OK, so udev is working properly. What should be happening now is that /etc/security/console.perms and the fstab entry for your cd writer should ensure that the ownership of the device is set to the currently-logged-in user, and that's not happening (unless you were logged in as root last time). What's the fstab entry for your cd writer? Mine's: /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0 (all one line) Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
