On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:54:49PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1)
> are owner/group and permissions of /dev/* files changed during
> source/binary upgrade?

Good question, I don't know.

> 2)
> I would like to give a user to give ability to grab CDs
> but not to read /dev/[ws]d* devices.
> For this, I've changed group of /dev/[r]cd* files.
> Is this the only way (I don't want to set suid bit to cdparanoia)?

You could also make /dev/[r]cd* world readable and writable, of course.

Pavel