On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 01:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, this one's new to me (of course, all most anything is with Debian). I'm > trying to tweak the permissions on my cdrom so that I can use it as a regular > user. I've already successfully changed the group for the cdrom, but now when > I > chmod g+rw /dev/cdrom, nothing changes. How can I get this to work right? > Anyone?
I don't know why people keep using that funny and complicated notation for chmod. The command takes octal. Do this: chmod 666 /dev/cdrom ls -l /dev/cdrom Then, if /dev/cdrom is a symlink, follow with an "ls -l" for whatever that points to.
