Hi, everybody: Why does newish fedora not let users write on disks?? I was able to write dvd with k3b under F8 as it used to be, but my system had not restarted in about 7 months. When it restarted with Fedora 8 kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 and udev -118-1.fc8, then k3b said my ordinary users, who are members of the "disk" group, could not write on the dvd device. Sure enough, permissions in /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 were 640, brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 2008-04-16 22:38 sr0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 1 2008-04-16 23:09 sr1 I manually set those to 660 (with chmod) and I can write on disks again. But those permissions keep getting set back, periodically, for reasons I can't see. Clearly, I'm not understanding some detail in configuration. Does your answer depend on whether I have an internal disk writer or a USB attached external disk writer? Does your answer depend on whether I log in remotely or sit in front of the computer? If your answer depends, I'm logging in remotely and also this is an external disk writer. I believe that means I should not be messing with ConsolePerms. Right? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
