udev(cdr/cdrw)

havner havner at smtp.kamp.pl
Tue Jul 4 14:50:19 CEST 2006


Anyone against such patch?

IMO users should have rw access to CD devices, not only for writing.
F.e. cdaudio or eject requires them as well. Maybe group name is not the
best now, but it doesn't matter that much.


Index: udev.rules
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/SOURCES/udev.rules,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -r1.37 udev.rules
--- udev.rules  10 May 2006 18:38:30 -0000      1.37
+++ udev.rules  4 Jul 2006 12:21:16 -0000
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
 BUS=="scsi",   KERNEL=="sr[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", IMPORT="cdrom_id
--export $tempnode"
 BUS=="scsi",   KERNEL=="scd[a-z]", ACTION=="add", IMPORT="cdrom_id
--export $tempnode"

-ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",           SYMLINK+="cdrom",       GROUP="disk"
+ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",           SYMLINK+="cdrom",       GROUP="cdwrite"
 ENV{ID_CDROM_CD_RW}=="?*",     SYMLINK+="cdrw",        GROUP="cdwrite"
-ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD}=="?*",       SYMLINK+="dvd",         GROUP="disk"
+ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD}=="?*",       SYMLINK+="dvd",         GROUP="cdwrite"
 ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD_R}=="?*",     SYMLINK+="dvdrw",       GROUP="cdwrite"
 LABEL="ide_end"

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Regards    Havner                      {jid,mail}:havner(at)pld-linux.org
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