On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:45:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-04-27 17:20:01 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The right way to do is probably to let the group unchanged and to > > > put yourself in the disk group. > > > > You should never put yourself in group disk. This gives you raw rw > > access to all your disk devices and partitions, which is very dangerous. > > Just change the group of the cdrom device to group cdrom > > OK, so why isn't it done by default?
Because with a static /dev you can't know beforehand if a /dev/hdX will be a cdrom device or a normal harddisk. So to be on the safe side, the default is root.disk. With something like udev the permissions are ``correct'', because it has somewhat more information about the device. Sjoerd -- If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are for yourself, then what are you? If not now, when?
