Changing CD drive protection the Gentoo way?

rafo

On a recently installed Gentoo system there is a CD drive and it appears as /dev/sr0 with 'brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom'.

This means that I can use it for playing audio CDs if I make myself a member of the cdrom group, do a `newgrp cdrom' and then launch the player application.

However, it seems to me it would be more practical if the permissions were 'brw-rw-rw-'. I am the only user on the machine (it is a laptop).

How should I achieve this in a clean way? I have found that if I change the "660" to "666" in /etc/udev/rules.d/65-permissions.rules I get the desired effect. However, the file says, "do not edit this file". Fair enough, but what do I do instead?

obrut<- · Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

the clean way is to add your users to the cdrom group. i don't see any need to do "hacks" as you only have to make a single change to your group membership

rafo · Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

Sorry--I see now that my testing wasn't systematic enough. I was trying out VLC and Amarok and it turns out that VLC needs to be emerged with the cdda USE flag. At some point this led me to incorrectly suspect a permissions problem.

With the USE flag issue fixed both of them can indeed be used for playing audio CDs if I have cdrom among my groups, and there is no need to do `newgrp cdrom' before launching the player. Thanks for good advice!