Allow exposing optical media devices #139

hadess · 2016-04-22T10:05:23Z

For DVD and VCD playback to work in totem, the application might need access to the device itself, as well as the mount point for that filesystem (to check what is on the disc).

alexlarsson · 2016-04-22T11:38:32Z

I understand the need, but direct block device access is scary stuff it things go wrong. I mean, a cdrom device is just a block device node like any other, such as your ide disks...

How does user permissions for dvd devices work? What makes it possible for the user to read the dvd drive device?

hadess · 2016-04-22T11:47:10Z

Right now? systemd-udev has rules to mark "CD drives" (meaning any optical media) as such:
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
and
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules

I don't know what changes the permissions to access it though.

alexlarsson · 2016-05-19T15:30:44Z

This issue was moved to flatpak/flatpak#12

alexlarsson mentioned this issue May 19, 2016

Allow exposing optical media devices flatpak/flatpak#12

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alexlarsson closed this as completed May 19, 2016

Allow exposing optical media devices #139

Allow exposing optical media devices #139

hadess commented Apr 22, 2016

alexlarsson commented Apr 22, 2016

hadess commented Apr 22, 2016 •

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alexlarsson commented May 19, 2016

Allow exposing optical media devices #139

Allow exposing optical media devices #139

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hadess commented Apr 22, 2016

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