Bug 296111

Summary:	wrong permissions for /dev/sg*
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	romal <linux>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description romal 2007-09-19 11:39:30 UTC

Description of problem:

[romal@beowulf ~]$ ll /dev/sg*
crw-r----- 1 root disk 21, 0 19. Sep 11:54 /dev/sg0
crw-r----- 1 root disk 21, 1 19. Sep 11:54 /dev/sg1
[romal@beowulf ~]$ 

Logged in user does not have access to the cdwriter

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

udev-115-2.fc8

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Additional info:

Commercial Nero cdwriting software (www.nero.com) does complain on this if
running as non-root-user.

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2007-09-19 13:00:04 UTC

you should use /dev/sr* (/dev/cdrom) not sg. We cannot allow general user access
to sg, because you can do bad things with it (like flashing a new firmware, etc.)