k3b permission error

viniosity · 2006-03-27 03:48:56

I'm trying to run k3b as a normal user but get an error that says

Cdrecord has no permission to open the device.

I ran k3bsetup and set the device burning group to optical. I am also in the optical group:

optical:!:93:viniosity,hal

Lastly, I checked out /usr/bin/cdrecord and see these privs

[root@archer bin]# ls -al cdrecord
-rws--x---  1 root optical 339440 2006-02-12 12:12 cdrecord

I thought k3b was just supposed to work out of the box.. What did I miss? Do I need to do a chmod on /usr/bin/cdrecord?

It does work as root..

tyme · 2006-03-27 06:34:56

what's the permissions on your cdrom device?

viniosity · 2006-03-30 15:34:53

brw-rw----  1 root optical 11, 0 2006-03-30 05:21 scd0

I did some searching tried chmodding to 0666

I did

[root@archer dev]# chmod 0666 scd0
[root@archer dev]# ls -al scd0
brw-rw-rw-  1 root optical 11, 0 2006-03-30 05:21 scd0

Still doesn't work though..

ralvez · 2006-03-30 15:50:58

Optical should be pointing to a specific piece of hardware; say it is hdc(like in my case), then make a sym-link like ln -s /dev/hdc cdrw-hdc and that should work.
In fact that is what I have in my workstation.

Rick

Arch Linux

#1 2006-03-27 03:48:56

k3b permission error

#2 2006-03-27 06:34:56

Re: k3b permission error

#3 2006-03-30 15:34:53

Re: k3b permission error

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Re: k3b permission error

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