On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:35:06PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > >I'm trying to set up a new installation of debian so that user can > >play DVDs. I have debian sarge 2.6.8-2-686, an IDE dvd drive, gxine > >0.4.1-1, libdvdread3-0.9.4-5. I can play .mp3 files OK with gzine. > > > >I created a dvd symlink: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/dvd > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 11 08:25 /dev/dvd -> hdc > > > >I can play a dvd as root, but not as user. To play as user I am forced > >to use a 666 permission for the device file, which is not the debian way: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/hdc > > brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 0 Jul 31 18:54 /dev/hdc > > > >To do things the debian way, I should give /dev/hdc 660 permission and > >add the user to the disk group, but it doesn't work. > > I'm not sure you should ever add a normal user to the disk group. I > also don't think you should add symlinks in /dev, although that is less > dangerous. Where is it written that this is TDW? > > You may wish to investigate udev. It should give /dev/hdc the correct > group of cdrom, and it should be trivial to add a rule to create /dev/dvd. > Adduser <username> cdrom
i.e. adding a user to group cdrom On my system, /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdd /dev/hdd is owned by root but group cdrom brw-rw-rw- 1 root,cdrom 22,64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdd [The device permissions are 0666 but that may be as a result of changing permissions when setting up k3b] HTH, Andy > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
