On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:01:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 07/16/01 00:18:38 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > > Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device > > (/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not > > part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that > > helps. > > I saw that the device I was trying to access belonged to the disk group. > I didn't add myself because I wasn't sure about it from a security > standpoint. Also, I didn't know if there was a different approach.
It is not good, from a security standpoint. Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that group instead of disk. > I just added myself and logged in again. I'm now able to play my audio > CDs. Cheers, Joost
