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.
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Matthew Rex
mrex at iinet.net.au
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