Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 05/02/04 17:06,typed: Also, at present I am really clear on what /cdrom /cdrom0 actually do. Whoopsi doopsi, should have read "Also, at present I am not really clear ." ->HS -- (Remove all underscores,_if any_, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologie

Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Chris Metzler_, on 05/02/04 16:55,typed: For me, /dev/hd* has group disk, except for hda and hdc, which are both cdrom (and are where I put a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW. The installer took care of appropriate group assignment for those two devices; I dunno why that didn't happen for you. B

Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 2 May 2004 19:53:26 + Lorenzo Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ls -l /dev/hdc > > shows: > > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 3 07:28 /dev/hdc > > This is where I got 'disk' for the group to put users into. But I see > now that/dev/hd* is group 'disk'. However,

Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Chris Metzler: # No. Instead of "disk", you meant to say group "cdrom." Assign users # to group "cdrom" so that they can access the cdrom device. # # Group "disk" has write access to all the raw disk devices (/dev/hd* and # /dev/sd*). As

Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:04:52 + Lorenzo Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thus spake Douglas Pollard: > # I've installed Debian Woody 3.0r2 and I'm trying to import files > on cd and floppy disk. I keep getting permission denied.# How d

Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Douglas Pollard: # I've installed Debian Woody 3.0r2 and I'm trying to import files on cd and floppy disk. I keep getting permission denied. # How do I give myself as user permission to use these drives. Be sure your user name is liste

Re: cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:33:04AM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > Hello all, > I've installed Debian Woody 3.0r2 and I'm trying to import files on cd and > floppy disk. I keep getting permission denied. > How do I give myself as user permission to use these drives. > > Thanks Doug ls -l /dev