On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 05:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 23.12.2016 um 18:54 schrieb Nimrod: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for this trivial question, but I really tried to find an answer on > > the web without any result. > > > > This is the issue: on a computer at home (shared among relatives, each > > with his/her own account), the first user that logs in after boot locks > > the cdrom drive, and any other user that logs in can't eject the cdrom: > > only the first user can eject it. > > > > Is there a way to avoid this? Being a home computer there are no privacy > > issues: the cdrom drive is used just for CD ripping or burning, there's > > no reason to prevent each other access to the unit. > > Does it help if you mount the cdrom as shared? > See https://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html → > UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED
No, it doesn't. The disk is already mounted in a shared directory, but its name is "/media/<user>/CDROM", and permissions are restricted to <user> only, where <user> is the one who first logged in the Gnome desktop. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udisks#Mount_to_.2Fmedia_.28udisks2.29 > > >
