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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:32:10AM -0400, Ross Pearlstone wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a new SM install running kernel 2.6.6 with udev. I have a few
> wrinkles to iron out. One being my inability to play music CD's
> seemingly due to the permissions of /dev/hdc
> 
> brw-------  1 root root 22, 0 2004-05-23 22:19 /dev/hdc
> 
> the changing of those permissions produces the desired results. Now my
> *limited* understanding of this is that udev creates the device node as
> needed by the system. So is udev responsible for creating the wrong
> permissions? Or are the permissions correct and there is something else
> I need to configure to make this automatic? BTW my fstab entry for this
> device looks like this:
> 
> /dev/hdc        /mnt/cdrom      auto    defaults,noauto,user  0 0
> 
> Can anyone help?
 
udev creates all devices with permission 600 by default, you have to
tell it if you want different ones.
Here's the line in my /etc/udev/udev.permissions:
hdc:root:burning:0664

Basically you can choose any user/group/permission combination you want.

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