previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed: > > I think it may be better to change the group ownership of the device > > node instead - I don't see the need for mplayer to have access to the > > other privileges that "operator" allows. > > brw-r----- 1 cdwrite cdread 6, 2 Jul 19 17:36 /dev/cd0c > > How about having cdwrite and cdread groups by default for users to add > to?
doh!, and the user can suid mplayer etc.. too restrictive umask may cause issues but cdwrite can always be added to groups too? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________
