On 11 Apr 2001 15:23:57 -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > 3. To add permissions to normal devices you may want to use as your > normal login, use the following command which adds the user to each of > the following groups. > adduser <user> dialout > - repeat for - > floppy > tty > cdrom > disk > audio > video
to add users to group disk is a bad idea, IMHO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ find . -group disk|wc -l 3174 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ some of these 3174 devices are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ find . -group disk|grep hda ./hda1 ./hda ./hda2 ./hda3 ./hda4 ./hda5 [snip] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I don't think you want all your users to be able to write the devices directly. The permission problem with the audio CD is solvable in at least two ways, I don't know what the "right" approach is: I did 'chown root.audio /dev/hdc' which lets members of group audio play CDs nicely (and those who play CDs are likely to be in audio anyway). An other approach would be chmod o+r /dev/hdc Regards, M. -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
