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

E. Eusey elcoocooi at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 15 20:45:01 PDT 2004


On Friday 13 August 2004 02:19 pm, Edwin Culp wrote:
> 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.

Ugh.  It's been a while since I bashed my head against that particular brick 
wall.  Have you read through the pkg-message yet?  Type 'make showinfo' in 
the k3b port directory if you haven't.  You may have forgotten to give the 
necessary permissions to a certain SCSI device.

Evan Eusey

>
> 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
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