On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:17:43PM +0000, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sure there is a simple solution to this problem but I'm not quite > sure how to fix it. Bascially, I can't play DVD's unless I'm running as > root - i.e. mplayer only plays if I'm root, but xine refuses to play at all. > > Someone suggested that my user wasn't part of the group cdrom and that > the drive wasn't accessible to the group but: > > hinata:/home/piers# addgroup piers cdrom > The user `piers' is already a member of `cdrom'. > hinata:/home/piers# ls -l /misc/cd > total 4 > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-09-08 06:30 audio_ts > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-09-08 08:12 video_ts > hinata:/home/piers# > hinata:/home/piers# cd /misc/ > hinata:/misc# ls -l > total 2 > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-09-08 06:30 cd > hinata:/misc# > > So the problem here seems to be that the directory is part of the 'root' > group, not the 'cdrom' group. If I unmount the DVD drive, the /misc/cd > directory vanishes. So how do I make the DVD drive part of the cdrom > group? The fstab file contains the following line: > > /dev/hdb /misc/cd udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
I think what really matters is the permissions on /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc depending on how you're set up. check those. they should be root:cdrom. Also, what mechanism are you using for mounting these disks? You may have to monkey with its config to get the permissions of the mounted disk the way you want. A
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