Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Matthias Andree]

Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2004-08-23:

> Only if someone would chown the related /dev/* nodes to a user differen from 
> root there would be a difference.

...which actually happens a lot, with the devperm PAM junk that some,
particularly desktop/end-user oriented distros do, for instance SuSE
Linux twist device permissions. It is awful for shared computers in a
network.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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