On 3/8/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lucas C. Villa Real wrote: > > On 3/8/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Works great. But I don't think "others" should be able to write to the > >> cdrw, only users in 'cdrecord' group. So I suggest changing that to > >> 0660... (what would otherwise be the point with 'cdrecord' owning > > > > Biggest problem with 0660 is that normal users (not in the device's > > group) cannot listen to CD's! > > Hmm, most often the same users who should be able to burn cd's would > also listen to CD's (users with console access). Perhaps we should have > a 'console' group and make all devices physically attached to the system > writable by this group (cdrom, cdrw, audio, usb, etc...)? > And then the liveCD installer would default to putting new users in this > group...
Can't we use the 'users' group instead, which already exists? > Or, we should use PAM? Doesn't PAM has support for automagically know > when user logged in to the physical machine and not from network? but > this would probably be a later thing to do... Yep. > But, if you choose to keep it 0666 then there's still no point at using > setgid or setuid on cdrdao or other software, since the device will be > writable for everyone anyhow! Makes sense. But what do we do with the 'cdrecord' group, then? Should we dump it and use 'console'/'users' instead? Suggestions? -- Lucas powered by /dev/dsp _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
