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Re: /dev/cdrom and devfs v213

To: A Guy Called Tyketto <tyketto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: /dev/cdrom and devfs v213
From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:34:37 +0400 (MSD)
Cc: Piercarlo Grandi <pg_mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20020519235822.GA298@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 19 May 2002, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

>
>         Aye, but the location of the entry and permissions in either file
> really have nothing to do with why the device is not usable by a non-root
> user, when given permissions 0666, or even 0660:
>

It is usable. As your strace shows, user can read CD just fine. It is one
particular IOCTL that fails.

May be 2.5 put some restrictions on who can use this ioctl?

-andrej

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