K3b problems...

[Todd Deshane]

On 6/15/05, postmast3r <postmast3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/15/05, Todd Deshane <deshantm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lee,
> >
> > I was looking at this file:
> > /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions
> >
> > and would the following line imply that you
> > need to be in the disk group to read and write
> > to the disk you are talking about sg0?
> >
> > s[gr][0-9]*:root:disk:0660
> >
> > You could then try adding your user to the
> > disk group to see if that fixed the problem.
> 
> Is that a good idea?  Any user in the "disk" group would have raw
> read/write access to all hard drives on the system.  Meaning, if that
> user runs a bad program, the bad program could potentially wipe any
> hard drive on his/her system with ease, without being root.
> 

well, it seems like it wouldn't be... it would probably make
more sense to change the sg device that is used as the burner
to the cdrom group or a similar group.
would this make sense for this application?
s[gr][0-9]*:root:cdrom:0660

Todd

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