xcdroast and k3b non-root permissions?

Matthew Rex mrex at iinet.net.au
Tue Mar 29 12:04:37 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:48, Paul Howarth wrote:

> When you say you "log in", is this directly on the system itself, or by ssh?
> 
ssh. The machine only has a serial console.

> The ownership of the device is set to be that of the person logged in 
> *on the console* because that is the person that will have physical 
> access to the device. There would be no point at all in setting up 
> permissions on a device-access basis because you might as well just make 
> the permissions 777 and let anyone write to it whenever they wanted, 
> which would be a security issue.
> 
The fog is finally lifting! That makes perfect sense.

> If you want to do CD-burning from a remote machine, you probably need to 
> "unmanage" the device (remove the pamconsole and managed terms from the 
> fstab entry) so that pam does not change the ownership of the device, 
> and write a custom udev rule/permissions entry to set the device up with 
> the permissions you want.
> 
I'll have a go at that.

> You can read about udev in Fedora at:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
> 
> Paul.

Thanks for the help!
Matt.
-- 
Matthew Rex
mrex at iinet.net.au

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