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[Peter Sutter <sutterp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 16 January 2006 22:44, Sunny wrote:
> On 1/16/06, Peter Sutter <sutterp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a SuSE V9.2 Linux system with a dvd burner on /dev/hda.
> > There is a web page based on a php script that allows users to
> > specify directories to upload and burn to the dvd. To do this,
> > wwwrun needs to have r/w access to /dev/hda. So I changed the
> > permissions with chmod 666 /dev/hda. A ls -ls /dev/hda shows
> > brw-rw-rw-  1 root disk 3, 0 Oct  2  2004 /dev/hda
> > After the system is re-booted, the device permissions are back
> > to brw-------  1 root disk 3, 0 Oct  2  2004 /dev/hda
> >
> > I stuck the line
> > /dev/hda root:disk 666
> > into /etc/permissions, in the hope that this will fix the
> > problem. Unfortunately this does not work either, i.e. after a
> > re-boot, the permissions are back to
> > brw-------  1 root disk 3, 0 Oct  2  2004 /dev/hda
> >
> > Running SuSEconfig --module permissions fixes the problem,
> > until the next boot.
> >
> > How is this done correctly? Which script on startup resets the
> > device permission?
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Peter
>
> The easiest way I can think of is to use k3bsetup utility. There
> you have to select "Use burning group". This will set up the
> right permissions for the specified group (usualy this is the
> group "burning", but you can change it to "disk" if you want
> wwwrun to run as a member of the "disk" group). Or, you may set
> the wwwrun to run as a user, who is member of the "burning"
> group.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> --
> --
> Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Thanks, Sunny

The burning runs under wwwrun.  Assigning a group does not help, 
because the file re-sets to 
brw-------  1 root disk 3, 0 Oct  2, 2004 /dev/hda  
which does not give write access to the group, only to the owner. 

Peter