On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:47:57AM -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > I'm having an access permission problem with my cd-rw drive. I switched > it to ide-scsi (added hdc=ide-scsi to boot parameters) and now I can > write to the drive with cdrecord, but only as root. Similarly, I can
Here the cdrom/writer is acces through /dev/sg*, you'll have to change group/permissions to allow access. > only rip tracks from the drive as root. I can mount data cd's and read Here they are accessed through /dev/scd*, and you probably changed group/permissions on /dev/hdc to allow access. > them as a regular user (configured "user" in fstab). Before I switched > to ide-scsi, I could rip cd's just fine as a regular user with group Then the cdrom/writer was acces through /dev/hdc, and you probably changed group/permissions on /dev/hdc to allow access. ... > P.S. Hmmm... just noticed that all /dev/sg* devices have only root > permissions... should I chgrp them to "disk" and add group rw > permissions? Create a "scsi" group? change those that really correspond to cdrom drives to group cdrom, and add g+rw permission to those only. -- groetjes, carel
