cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.
Ian Smith
smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Sat Aug 14 22:54:29 PDT 2004
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote:
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:47:09 -0500
> From: edwinculp <edwinculp at prodigy.net.mx>
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>
> I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't
> get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the
> user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has
> permissions set to 666, the same in devfs.conf (That solves the
> problem for xmms but not for k3b. I have tried to suid and kde won't
> let it start. I'm out of ideas. After this much time, I'm sure that
> I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill and I'm missing something
> very simple.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I can't see my users using burncd
>
>
> Thanks
>
> ed
>
> P.S. Machines are running current and are AMD Athlon
I see you've not got this going yet. I don't know about current but on
4.x, as well as vfs.usermount=1 you need to have non-root users mount
CDs on a directory that they actually own. Might that be an issue here?
Cheers, Ian
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