Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hans said: > > Also, you should be aware that the user cdrom is implicitly a member of the > group cdrom and hans is implicitly a member of group hans, even though > /etc/group doesn't list them.
I thought user hans was a member of group hans because the fourth field of entry hans in the passwd file matched the third field in entry hans in the group file. As I read it, there's no cdrom user. So beware, the system uses numbers, and the names are just convenient (and sometimes misleading) labels for us humans. BTW you need to be in audio to use the CD device as a CD player. > > If so, this would seems > > better to me than the suggestion "change the permission with chmod" you > > always see when a person reports a device he/she can't access. Some of these suggestions will be for when the permissions have got altered in error (when programs that fiddle with them crash, or someone untars an archive in /tmp rather than /tmp/foo) and need correcting. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
