neroLINUX permissions help

Spleeze · 03-17-2005, 12:43 AM

I just installed a copy of neroLINUX and it works well, except there is one problem, i can only burn a cd with it under root...

when i su then run nero it works great but when i dont su it gives me a warning that says i dont have permission for the following drives, and it lists all of my removable media drives...

the question is how can i give my user account permission to these drives so i can burn with neroLINUX as a normal user.

scuzzman · 03-17-2005, 02:13 AM

The easiest way is to find out which group owns those drives, and, unless it's root, add yourself to that group.

Spleeze · 03-17-2005, 02:40 AM

in my fstab i have these drives that i get errors on set to "user" so that should let me basically use them as anyone else would right?

if you would please elaborate on what you said scuzzman i would appreciate it

edit: I seem to have this problem anytime that a program that i run needs to access a drive

for example: totem won't play a dvd unless i run it as root and if i do everything works fine

Spleeze · 03-17-2005, 11:38 PM

any ideas?

hongman · 04-09-2005, 11:57 AM

Just wondering, what distro you use and what command did you use to install it?

Dr_Proton · 01-14-2006, 05:42 PM

Hello I have nero workings on SuSE 10 oss, The group who has permissions on disks is "disk".
However it only has read permissions.

When I modify the permissions, ( chmod g=rwx /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd ) it works great.
Fedora Core 4 did not need this, permissions for group "disk" where always rwx.
Ofcource I have also made my local user account a member of the group "disk"

Only thing is, when i reboot, the permissions are reset to read only.

Does anyone know how to make them stick ?

Thanks in advance.

Dr_Proton · 01-15-2006, 04:51 AM

I know now how to make the permissions stick.
It was an "udev" issue.

Check this:
linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1481405

I hope this is of any use.

Friendly greetings, Dr_Proton.