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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:48 am    Post subject: unprivilleged to use CD/DVD in Gnome? Reply with quote

after some last upgrade Gnome says I'm not priviliged to use "this" drive trying to burn disc with brasero or nautilus.
Befeore I could. I haven't changed any settings and I'm still a memeber or cdrw and all other groups ass. w cd /dvd burning
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are the permissions and group ownership of the device nodes related to the drive?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
genio dev # la hda
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 0 XI 10 10:09 hda
genio dev # la hda
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 0 XI 10 10:09 hda
genio dev # la cdr*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 XI 10 10:09 cdrom1 -> hda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 XI 10 10:09 cdrw1 -> hda
genio dev # la dvd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 XI 10 10:09 dvd1 -> hda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 XI 10 10:09 dvdrw1 -> hda

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've tried to chnage owneship of cdr*s, but I couldn't.

When I launch brasero as root I can burn.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

can we get the output of `id`?

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably a silly question, but are you a member of the cdrom group?



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bunder wrote:
can we get the output of `id`?

thanks


Code:
# id przemek
uid=1000(przemek) gid=100(users) grupy=100(users),4(adm),10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),20(dialout),27(video),80(cdrw),85(usb),250(portage),16(cron),408(games),1004(plugdev)

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peka wrote:

When I launch brasero as root I can burn.


Same problem here
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can (either of) you burn the discs on the command line with cdrecord/wodim as a normal user?

Try making wodim SUID, see if that helps.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopeless wrote:
Can (either of) you burn the discs on the command line with cdrecord/wodim as a normal user?

Try making wodim SUID, see if that helps.


No I haven't the necessary permissions.
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