Thanks for the warning about adding myself to the group disk. And have
removed myself from disk. And then changed the group from disk to
audio for /dev/hdd. I was already a user of audio. Sound is still playing
fine.
Clay
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> [quotations reordered]
>
> > > Then, make sure you have added "yourself" (whoever "yourself" is
> that
> > > is trying to run an audio application) to the audio group.
>
> Quoting Clayton Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > But had to go to /dev/hdd and add myself to the user disk and now I
> can
> > listen to any of my music cd's.
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> I hope you're not saying that you typed, say,
>
> addgroup yourname disk
>
> If so, you should take yourself out of that group straight away and
>
> addgroup yourname audio.
>
> Then change the group ownership of the CD drive to audio:
>
> chgrp audio /dev/hdd
>
> Making yourself a member of group disk gives you the power to trash
> all your hard disks because you can write to the raw devices.
>
> Cheers,
>
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