On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I ran into the same problem and changed my udev rules. It's probably more appropriate to change it in console perms as it is something that should be set when a user logs in, but I'm the only person who logs into my machine so I didn't really care. Richard
