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Re: [SLE] What is so special on /dev/hda? was how to make device permissions stick?
  • From: Peter Sutter <sutterp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:10:48 +0800
  • Message-id: <200601190910.49100.sutterp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 19 January 2006 04:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Wednesday 2006-01-18 at 10:04 +0800, Peter Sutter wrote:
> > To burn the dvd, growisofs needs physical access to the dvd
> > burner, which is /dev/hda, and the permissions of /dev/hda
> > change from 666 root:disks to 600 root:disks after a crash.
>
> Did you read my email (Monday)?
>
> In file /etc/logindevperm:
> :0 0600 /dev/cdrom:/dev/cdrom1:/dev/cdrom2:/dev/cdrom3
>
> ^^^^
>
> It doesn't matter that it is /dev/hda the one that changes;
> /dev/cdrom is a symlink to it, so this service knows what it has
> to change.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos Robinson
Thanks, Carlos.

No, I did not read your email from Monday, I did not get this one
but I could find it on
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2006-01/

I will give this a go.

Thanks

Peter

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