udev or what?? how to set permissions for /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, everybody:
>
>  Why does newish fedora not let users write on disks??
>
>  I was able to write dvd with k3b under F8 as it used to be, but my
>  system had not restarted in about 7 months.  When it restarted with
>  Fedora 8 kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 and udev -118-1.fc8, then k3b said my
>  ordinary users, who are members of the "disk" group, could not write
>  on the dvd device.
>
>  Sure enough, permissions in /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 were 640,
>
>  brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 2008-04-16 22:38 sr0
>  brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 1 2008-04-16 23:09 sr1
>
>  I manually set those to 660 (with chmod) and I can write on disks
>  again.  But those permissions keep getting set back, periodically, for
>  reasons I can't see.
>
>  Clearly, I'm not understanding some detail in configuration.
>
>  Does your answer depend on whether I have an internal disk writer or a
>  USB attached external disk writer?
>
>  Does your answer depend on whether I log in remotely or sit in front
>  of the computer?
>
>  If your answer depends, I'm logging in remotely and also this is an
>  external disk writer.  I believe that means I should not be messing
>  with ConsolePerms. Right?
>
>
>  --
>  Paul E. Johnson
>  Professor, Political Science
>  1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
>  University of Kansas

I ran into the same problem and changed my udev rules. It's probably
more appropriate to change it in console perms as it is something that
should be set when a user logs in, but I'm the only person who logs
into my machine so I didn't really care.

Richard