why is /dev/cdrom owned by root:disk after installation?

From: H. S. (greatexcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/16/04

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    (okay, now I know why my previous two attempts at getting this throug
    have failed: wrong email address)

    Hi,

    I have installed Debian a few time (Woody as well as Sarge). Each time I
    notice that after installation, my CDROM device /dev/cdrom is linked to
    /dev/hdc. But /dev/hdc is owned by root:disk.

    After some research on google and mailing lists, I always reach the
    conclusion that to make any user able to use the CDROM properly, the
    ownership of /dev/hdc need to be changed to root:cdrom, and all users
    need to be made members of the 'cdrom' group. Making the users members
    of 'disk' group is vehementlyl discouraged, apparently it is not a good
    practice from security point of view.

    So why is it the CDROM devices are owned by root:disk? If we always have
    to change (at leat I have to, and from newsgroups many other people have
    to too) the ownership to root:cdrom, and make all users members of cdrom
    group (after all, what other purpose is a CDROM for if not for the use
    of the users?), why do the developers not take this into account and
    configure the CDROM device accordingly and *not* make it owned by
    root:disk but by root:cdrom? And make all users members of the "cdrom"
    groups when they are created? Am I missing something here?

    ->HS 

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