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On 09-01-2007 at 17:06, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi,

I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE 10.2/KDE. just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an ordinary user, k3b is NOT configured to have access to my DVD-Rom and DVD-Recorder. Even worse, being an ordinary user, I have no chance to add my DVD devices. K3b tells me, the devices are not found, although they are there ;-) I tried with user root and had no such problems.

How can I cure this? I searched Google and the mailinglists last 1000 messages (I read through knode) but did not find an answer.

Any help is appreciated kind regards Eberhard

ALT-F2 kdesu k3b will do the job.

HTH

I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet). Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi, I finally solved it and found some very strange things on my computer: 1. I installed gnomebaker and found that it can see the devices, when started as a user. Someone knows why? ;-) 2. I remembered that although I had my / partition fully formatted during the install, I remerbered that I had been asked and agreed to take over the existing users from /etc/passwd (from ubuntu Edgy) 3. I made a new user "guest" and added "guest" to the additional groups "users" and "cdrom". 4. I logged on as "guest" and tried K3b. Surprise, it worked! 5. I checked what groups I myself am in. No Surprise, I was already a member of "users" and "cdrom", but it still did not work. 5. I tried to delete myself from the yast-user menu but strangely found that I could not do it, instead I got "The user that you want to delete is currently logged on, please log him off, firstly" Although this was clearly wrong, I could not do it with Yast 6. I did it the hard way and deleted myself quickly from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Afterwards it was easy to recreate myself and add the groups "users" and "cdrom" to myself. 7. I deleted .kde, .kderc and ~/Desktop from my home directory to clear any kde chaos that I had collected through the generations, just to be sure. 8. I logged in and k3b greeted me with the message that apparently it was started for the first time ;-). Consequently i was asked to set the speed of the detected burner device. Voilà! So OpenSUSE works great but it is me who was to blame. Thanks anyone for all the helpful hints that I got and I got them so quickly! This is really a helpful community. Kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:

Ysgrifennodd Dominique Leuenberger:

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I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet).

Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating?

One solution I've seen mentioned, although I've never tried it myself, is to create a group "cdburners" or something. Add the appropriate users to this group and then give that group the appropriate permissions on the device.

HTH

Peter

For instance, does this help? http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mgarcia/info/CdPlayer/xcdroast.html Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

tisdag 09 januari 2007 16:50 skrev Eberhard Roloff:

My first suspect is this hal policy thing, which also forces me to manually mount a cdrom (as root, of course) before I can access it's contents as a user. Seems that opensuse in essence rolls back half a decade in regard to device permission things.

This is definitely a clue. You should absolutely not have to mount cdroms as root. It works on my 10.2 system. Are you running gnome or kde? In kde, all this is managed by KDED, which is configured (enabled) from the Control Centre. In gnome, I have no idea... -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson, Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A, S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! phone:+46-8-50304717 gsm:+46-70-3394717 fax:+46-8-50304701 !-- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Lennart Börjeson wrote:

tisdag 09 januari 2007 16:50 skrev Eberhard Roloff:

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My first suspect is this hal policy thing, which also forces me to manually mount a cdrom (as root, of course) before I can access it's contents as a user. Seems that opensuse in essence rolls back half a decade in regard to device permission things.

This is definitely a clue. You should absolutely not have to mount cdroms as root. It works on my 10.2 system. Good to know, definitely.

Are you running gnome or kde? KDE

In kde, all this is managed by KDED, which is configured (enabled) from the Control Centre. Where in ControlCentre? I can find in KDE Components/Service Manager/ several services whose names start with "KDED", but apart from stop/start, I cannot do anything there, als least what I see.

Any help is greatly appreciated regards Eberhard

In gnome, I have no idea...

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On Wednesday 10 January 2007 02:42, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

well, this simplifies running k3b in root mode, but this is not what I am after. Honestly, imho it is absolutely rediculous that you have to be root to burn a cdrom. I last experienced this with xcdroast about five years ago.

I have just burnt about 20 CD-RW's using my account without any need to run as root. I suggest you try the K3B version on the packman site. You may have to run K3Bsetup to set it to run in non-root mode. But a word of warning: I had problems using my Pioneer DVD burner and had to resort to an old SCSI Sony burner. For some reason it came up with errors trying to work out the burning power to be used on the CD-RWs. -- Regards, Graham Smith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org