CD/DVD burning broken in openSuse 11.1

CD/DVD burning seems to be broken/not working by default in openSuse 11.1 - at least on my PC with a pretty standard 5-years old DVDRW drive from LG. There seems to be a problem with device permissions: the /dev/sr0 device (my DVDRW drive) is owned by root:disk and therefore not accessible for CD burning software (/usr/bin/wodim to be exact) when executed by regular users. Here is a workaround for this problem:

• make your user a member of "cdrom" group
• create /etc/udev/rules.d/99-my.rules file with the following entry:
  KERNEL=="sr*[0-9]", GROUP="cdrom", MODE="0660"
• set setuid bit for /usr/bin/wodim (note: this has some security implications; make sure you understand what it is all about):
  chmod u+s /usr/bin/wodim
• reboot

Remarks:

• this assumes your CD/DVD writer is mapped to a /dev/sr* device (should be the case for all drives, but I couldn't verify that).
• if this rule causes any side-effects to other /dev/sr* devices you may have installed, restrict the rule for specific device instead of using regular expression.
  

It would be of course possible to make your user a member of "disk" group, but it would be a real security problem, as this would also allow for low level access to hard disks.

Updates:

• the bug has already been reported on Novell's bugzilla
  
• making wodim setuid seems to be not needed after all (udev rule is enough).