On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:01:44PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Thursday, 05 December 2002, 11:20 AM +0900): > > * Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021205 11:03]:
[ snip ] > > > bash$ ls -l / | grep cdrom$ > > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:07 cdrom This is the mountpoint for data CDs, so permissions here do not matter. > > > bash$ ls -l /dev | grep hdc$ > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 2 13:07 cdrom -> hdc > > > brw--rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 14 2002 hdc Both commands demonstrate overuse of grep :-) `ls -l /cdrom /dev/hdc' would have worked just as well, IMO. > > OK, I think you are almost there. What you show above is almost what > > you need. The thing is that you are now out of the disk group so you don't > > have permission so read or write /dev/hdc. Use chmod to fix this the > > prblem for /dev/hdc. > > > > chmod o+rw /dev/hdc > Since it's a cdrom and you /can't/ write to it (not without ide-scsi > emulation, which evidently isn't turned on currently as you're using > /dev/hdc), you only need to do: > chmod o+r /dev/hdc > (as root) to achieve what you need to do. Personally, I think world read access to the CD-ROM is a bad idea. A better idea is this: chgrp cdrom /dev/<whatever> adduser <you> cdrom newgrp cdrom # or log out and back in again Some people abuse the audio group for this, but I'm not naming names. :-) BTW, I think you do need write access to the CD-ROM device if you want to send commands like "eject", but I could be wrong there. HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice that you have turned into a pile of dust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
