Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > > Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is > > a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. > > And if so, you'll probably have to add yourself to group disk, chown the > /dev/hd? to group audio, or chmod it so all users can read/write it.
Which of these three is generally recommended as the best practice? Adding myself to the group disk certainly seems like a bad idea, since it appears that it would mean that I would have direct access to the hard disks as a regular user, thus making it really easy to screw something up. Something seems a little weird about making a device world writeable, without any restriction, but I can't particularly see the harm as a cd rom is a read-only device. On the other hand, making the cdrom owned by group audio also seems a bit weird, as it is not fundamentally an audio device; it just happens to have audio data sometimes. Thanks. A semi-newbie trying to learn good practices, --Miguel
