Closing.  Tested grml 1.0 from console and found no problems.  Of course I could
not test from GNOME because it's not on grml CD.  Can re-open later if necessary.

Just to not forget this bugreport: Is it still valid? I don't have any problems 
with permission handling and don't want to change anything what isn't broken.
Any instructions how I could reproduce it on my own?

thanks && regards,
-mika-

yes

you copied your files also as normal user?

(@gebi) In GNOME desktop 2.14 as user, I inserted a data CD sold commercially,
and copied some files to hard disk.

what exactly are you trying to do?
do you mount your cd/dvd as root and copy it as root to the hd?
who have you copied your files, cp -a?

Related:  fix annoying read-only status on files copied from CD to hard disk. 
CDROM is read-only but files copied to disk don't have to retain that setting. 
It is annoying to do manually.

Report from Mark:

# Begin of report #

Just copied files from cdrom to hard disk.  Grml assigns owner of all
cdrom files as root:root so files copied to local disk become impossible
to manipulate.

Grml fstab should change to:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom  auto  users,noauto,exec,ro,uid=root,gid=users  0
0
/dev/dvd   /mnt/dvd    auto  users,noauto,exec,ro,uid=root,gid=users  0
0

Similar to what grml does for /dev/external and /dev/external1 ... CDROM
is very similar type of device, "ejectable media".

# End of report #

Thanks for reporting, Mark. Definitely something we have to take a closer look
at. Won't hit develrelease 0.9-5 though due to freeze but is something we have
to catch before grml 1.0 is there, assigning "release-stopper"-topic therefore.

thx,
-mika-