On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:08:03PM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: > > Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed > ^^^^ > should refer > to the group > idea :-] > > like a nice way to handle it but it didnt work for me. > > > > janet:/dev# ll cdrom > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 8 Dec 13 04:54 cdrom -> /dev/hdc > > > > janet:/dev# ll hdc > > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 3 1999 hdc > > > > janet:/etc# less group > > <snip> > > cdros:x:24:rosef > ^ > typo, is actually m :-/ > > <snip> > > > > janet:/etc# less group- > > <snip> > > cdros:x:24:rosef > ^ > Ahhh the foibles of copy and paste :-)
in that case it should work, does id or groups show that you are a member of the cdrom group? is your cdrom REALLY /dev/hdc? (secondary master) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
