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From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:33:50 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add ACLs to /dev/sgX nodes for CD-ROM
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Am 07.03.2011 16:23, schrieb Kay Sievers:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:01, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>> Current wine is using /dev/sgX to access CD-ROM devices. Since
>> distributions switched to using ACL instead of group membership
>> to control device access, wine is not able to access them.
>>
>> Add ACL to device nodes that already get GROUP="cdrom".
> 
> Applied.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kay

Oh! You don't want to do this... Won't this allow ordinary users to flash a new
firmware, opening some security issues here?
Wasn't this, why cdrecord needed to be suid back in those days?
Wasn't this the reason for the filter for /dev/sr* in the kernel?