CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and device permission

[Francois Ouellette]

> Can we set something in HAL to make sure the device entry always allows
> access to others?
>
>From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>Subject: Re: CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and device permission
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com
>
>The device should come up with permissions 0600 *but* owned by the user
>logged in at the console, so that user can access the device but nobody
>else can.
>
>Do you want multiple users to be able to access the drive, or just the
>console user, who is likely to be the only one that has physical access
>to the drive?
>
>Paul.

The device always turns out to be owned by root... I use 2 user names this
machine apart from root.

Thanks,

François Ouellette