On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:36:57PM +0100, florian wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:02, Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:41:49PM +0100, florian wrote: > > > but why does it not throw this error when i run the app as root? > > > > Because root has access to everything, I suppose, just like on every > > other traditional Unix-ish system. Look at the permissions on /dev/sg* > > (or /dev/scsi/hostX/busY/targetZ/lunN/generic, if you're using devfs), > > and make sure that the user you're ripping as has permission to to read > > and write to that device. (Ripping with SCSI drives is done by issuing > > raw SCSI commands - you're using IDE-SCSI, so same thing applies.) > > ah! yup, nicolai already pointed out that i should have checked the > sg* devices and not just sr0 and scd0..
You should create a cdburner or whatever group, add yourself to it, and change all these devices to be group owned by them. The CD-writing howto has some comment about this in the faq part. Friendly, Sven Luther
