> The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices > are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default) > scd devices are group audio, perm 0660, and my cdripper account is in the > audio group. > > Currently, I have two hard drives and two cdrom drives in this machine. > The hard drives are at IDs 0 and 1, and the cdrom drives are at IDs 5 and > 6. > > ID: generic: > 0 sg0 > 1 sg1 > 5 sg2 > 6 sg3 > > Now I want to connect an external hard drive to my machine, so I have more > storage space for my music collection. I set this drive to ID 3. > > ID: generic: > 0 sg0 > 1 sg1 > 3 sg2 > 5 sg3 > 6 sg4 > > Notice that now my external hard drive has access by audio group through > the generic device, and my second cdrom drive is no longer accessable by > the audio group. > > Basically, cdparanoia and the installer scripts cannot depend on a fixed > mapping between the scd device and the sg device.
I think that's even more of an argument for not having automated lookups occuring. I.e. you want to know what you're doing to be accessing raw SCSI devices. That's simply my opinion of course... I can see how you arrived at the solution that you did now though. So far, you're the only person that's sent me email advocating SUID root. Would documenting that as a solution, and describing how to do it in Readme.Debian, along with the other approaches/problems be sufficient in your opinion? > On the other hand, I believe this will be a moot point under devfs. I brought this up once on debian devel. A lot of people are very anti-devfs. I still haven't ever played with it and have no opinion of my own on it. Later, Dale -- +---------------------- pgp key available -----------------------+ | Dale E. Martin | Clifton Labs, Inc. | Senior Computer Engineer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.clifton-labs.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]