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 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udisks#Mount_to_.2Fmedia_.28udisks2.29 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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