On Sunday 30 August 2009 13:41:47 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Kevin Kempter wrote: > > I did some more digging. /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom are both symlinks to > > /dev/sr0 > > > > the symlinks (/dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom) are both owned by user:group > > root:root and have 777 permissions > > > > any other thoughts? > > > > Thanks in advance.... > > Every symlink I have seen has 777 permissions. What counts are the > permissions of the file it links to. > > [mikkel lib]$ ls -l /dev/dvd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-08-20 11:35 /dev/dvd -> sr0 > [mikkel lib]$ ls -l /dev/sr0 > brw-rw----+ 1 mikkel root 11, 0 2009-08-20 11:35 /dev/sr0 > > Mikkel How do I change perms on the device? If I do a chmod a+rw /dev/sr0 it changes the perms for about 30 seconds then they get changed back to rw for root only. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines