On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:02:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. > > chmod /dev/hd? a+r
Talk about killing a fly with a shotgun... This solution would make all IDE drives world-readable as raw devices, allowing enterprising users to sift through the contents of your (IDE) hard drives to see such things as the contents of /etc/shadow or any passwords that may have been stored in memory which was subsequently swapped out to disk. Yeah, it'll work, but (even on a single-user home system) do you really want to open up all those extra holes? Either just do the CDROM device (usually /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd - check to see what /dev/cdrom is linked to if you're not sure) or add your user account to the audio group instead. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery
