On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:13:50AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +0000, Chris Owen wrote: > > Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > ... > > Try running (as root) > > chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom > > I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, > it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to give such > nonsensical advice, it seems that it's even a favourite one lately:(-- > , to advice people to mess with those flags where the proper way is to > add users to specific groups. In this case the cdrom group. And > whilst the OP is add it, he might as well check he's in the audio group > too.
Re groups: he did... Why is this advice nonsensical, though? As you say, several people have given it recently. Rather fewer people have responded, as you did, saying it's a bad idea. Nobody has explained WHY it's a bad idea. What harm does it do if the world and his dog can read my CD-ROM? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
