Re: How to retsrict cd drive???

[Martin Hawlisch <hawlisch roxi rz fh-mannheim de>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, George Farris wrote:

> Under gnome when a user logs in the CD drive chowned to their user 
> name.  As the sys admin I want to restrict certain indiviuls from 
> using that drive.  Where is this being set from? I want to disable 
> it.
This is possibly done by a tool called 'magicdev'.

The README:
> magicdev is a user-space device-watching daemon that runs within the
> GNOME desktop. Some features include:
>
>  - Auto-mounting removeable media on insertion
>  - Communicating with the GNOME file manager to keep windows
>    and the desktop up to date for the removeable media
>  - Launching a given command when an audio CD is inserted.
>
> magicdev is configured through a GNOME control-center capplet.


 Cheers, Martin.

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