cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.

[Ian Smith]

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