On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > >On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > >> It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping > >> /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom.... > >OK, so all I had to do was make /dev/hdc world-readable <sigh> > >Matthew > > Again .. you do not have to change ANY permissions. Type ls -l filename.. > My cdrom is on /dev/hdh so 'ls -l /dev/hdh' shows > brwxrwx--- 1 root disk 34, 64 Apr 26 1998 /dev/hdh > > Do the samething you did with your /dev/audio groups but add yourself to > the group 'disk' like so 'adduser user disk'
This assumes I want to add myself to group disk, which I do not. OTOH, giving everyone read permissions to my CDROM is unlikely to cause problems ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
