Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Peter Sutter <sutterp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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