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

[Tony Godshall]

# adduser otheruser disk

group disk has sufficient permission so adding otheruser to disk group
should be enough (and make sure otheruser logs out and logs back in)

On 10/3/07, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
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