Hi:

I'm a bit of a newbie to Slackware (and to Linux, for that matter.)
I've done my research and have managed to get my ATAPI CD-RW drive
working under nautilus-cd-burner. The only problem that I have is that
I must be logged in as root to actually write to the device.

I know that if I were to change the permissions on /dev/sg0 (this is the
/dev entry my CD-RW uses), I would be able to write to the CD-RW drive
without having to be logged on as root. I ran across a very similar
post while Googling in the Debian mailing list that suggested changing
the permissions, but I wanted some other opinions before I did that.

My question is to whether or not changing the permissions would be a
security risk. As it stands, the default permission for /dev/sg0 are:

crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 1999-04-12 23:24 /dev/sg0

If I were to change group ownership to cdrom and give rw privileges to
the group, would that be a horrible security risk?

Thanks,
Mike

Mike N. <postmaster@localhost> wrote:
>crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 1999-04-12 23:24 /dev/sg0
>
>If I were to change group ownership to cdrom and give rw privileges to
>the group, would that be a horrible security risk?

No, but I guess you would like to use /dev/sr0 instead for your burning
needs. (And it already has the correct group and access bits.)

Petri Kaukasoina wrote:

> No, but I guess you would like to use /dev/sr0 instead for your burning
> needs. (And it already has the correct group and access bits.)

Thank you, Petri.

I had originally modified my fstab to mount /dev/sr0 as my burner, but
for some reason I still require rw privileges on /dev/sg0 to allow
myself to use nautilus-cd-burner.

I say "some reason". The actual error message was along the lines of
not being able to open the SCSI driver on /dev/sg0. Once I changed the
permissions as I'd stated in my original post, everything is working fine.

Thanks again,
Mike