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