k3b

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Feb 8 13:47:53 UTC 2005


Scott Ryan wrote:
> 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

The files look OK; at least, they look the same as mine do!

Do you have a file /var/run/console/console.lock, and is your username 
in it?

Paul.




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