[mythtv-users] [OT] Making DVD-RW drive available to MythTV and VNC users?

[Ben Lancaster]

Hi guys,

I'm sure people on the list have have come accross this.

OK, so I have one DVD-RW drive in my house... in my Myth Box. It  
would seem that Linux (F7 specifically) only gives the necessary  
permissions to the drive for the user who 'owns' localhost:0.

# stat /dev/scd0
   File: `/dev/scd0'
   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   block  
special file
Device: 10h/16d Inode: 5164        Links: 1     Device type: b,0
Access: (0666/brw-rw----)  Uid: (  501/mythtv)   Gid: (    6/    disk)

501/mythtv is the user that my front end is running on. I also have a  
VNC session running under a different UID all the time for picking up  
personal e-mails etc from work via an SSH tunnel, I use this VNC  
session to burn CDs/DVDs non-Myth media with Graveman/K3B. The  
trouble is, every time I insert the disc, I have to go in and  
manually change the permissions of the device so that the user my VNC  
session is running as can access it.

Is there a decent solution for this, so both the VNC user and  front  
end can access the device for reading/writing?

I'm using Fedora 7 on an x86_64, with a nondescript Sony drive (not  
that it matters).

Thanks in advance,

Ben