On 9/29/05, david rankin
Mates,
Just installed a DVD burner to replace a cd burner. I am actually starting to use Linux as a desktop instead of simply as a server. One of my needs is for regular user to be able to access the DVD drive to rip the deposition videos from the DVDs so they can be edited for trial presentation. I can access the DVD just fine as root, by not as a regular user. I have tried adding users to every conceivable group in /etc/group, but it still doesn't work.
Two issues:
(1) How do I set privileges so I can give non-root users access to DVD's? Like to use kaffine, mplayer, DVD::rip, etc..
(2) Why doesn't the DVD get mounted under /media/cdrecorder or some other fixed mount point?? Instead links are created under /media according to the DVD volume label. I just want a fixed dvdrecorder or cdrecorder under /media. Below, you can see that all of the old DVD labels are still under /media.
david@rankin-xp:~> ll /media total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-07-06 15:53 cdrecorder drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-09-29 07:55 floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-19 11:22 Froebel__1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-19 11:28 Froebel__2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-07-11 12:06 idedisk drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-09-29 15:25 SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME
I recall earlier posts that described why this works this way and how to fix it, but I can't find it. Any help would be appreciated.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
check this: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/05/dkukawka_hal_mountpoints.html -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)