When I hotplug my usb burner, udev generates /dev/sg0, but it's owned all by root. Thus only root can burn CDs. To change this i have inserted the folowing line into. /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules BUS="scsi", KERNEL="s[grt][0-9]*", SYSFS_type="5", NAME="%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="cdrom" think this line should be inluded as a default. I'm using sys-fs/udev-54. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 18 2005, 08:58:45)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdr cjk crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irmc jabber jack java jpeg kde kdepim ldap lesstif libg++ libwwwlirc mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mssql mysql nas ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba scanner sdl slang snmp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Use the /dev/cdrom symlinks instead. They will point to the proper device. We can't make this a generic "sg is always a cdrom" rule, as that is not the case for 99% of the time.
*** Bug 99137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
k3b will not allow normal users to write a cd unless sg* is also in the cdrom group even thought it is pointing at cdrom -----> sr0. I am not a programmer but surely udev could interrogate the device and if it was a cdrom put it in the correct group?
If you can figure out a way, sure. But you should not need sg to write a cdrom, right?
