On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:42:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > no you need to add yourself to the cdrom group and perhaps change the > group on the cdrom device to `cdrom' (only if its an ide cdrom) > > > Glancing at my /etc/group file, it looks like that's what I did.. > > that is an exceedingly bad thing to do, you are now running with as > good as root privileges full time. (take a look at the permissions on > the device for your hard disk, root partition, and any other > partitions to see what i mean) > > i don't think i need to explain why running as root all the time is > bad.
Ack. Thank you for pointing that out, Ethan... I changed my groups immediately. To John, I apologize for my bad advice. :( Tom
