Earlier, I couldn't eject my CDROM as a normal user by using the "eject" command. I could mount it though. I could but eject the CDROM as root. I used to get:
$> eject /cdrom
eject: unable to open `/dev/cdrom'
The problem was the group owner ship of my cdrom(it is linked to /dev/hdc in my case):
earlier: usr/src# ls -l /dev/hdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hdc
Then, (thanks to:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-200012/msg04202.html where it is suggested *NEVER* to make a normal user a member of the 'disk' group), I changed it to:
/usr/src# chown root:cdrom /dev/hdc
/usr/src# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hdc
And I am already a member of 'cdrom' group. Now I can use the eject the command as a normal user to open/close the CD tray.
HTH somebody, since I don't recall getting a satisfactory answer when I asked this earlier a few weeks ago.
regards,
->HS
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