yes, what i do to be able to use cdparanoia as a user (same situation I think) is make a 'scsi' group, add the users I want, then change the group of /dev/sg* to 'scsi'.
/usr/doc/cdparanoia > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael A. Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:21 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: configuration for cdrecord and readcd? > > When I try to use readcd, which is part of the cdrecord package, > I'm told > > > readcd dev=$SCSI_BUS,$SCSI_ID,$SCSI_LUN > f=/mnt/jaz.ext2/miller/aha2001.image.readcd > readcd: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI > driver. > > I have lots of questions that I think are scsi permissions > related... What is /dev/sg0? How does it differ from /dev/scd0? > How can I allow normal users to use readcd? Once upon a time, I > used suidregister on cdrecord so that I could use it as a normal > user, as in "suidregister /usr/bin/cdrecord root cdburners 4710". > Is that recommended for readcd? Or is it a device permissions > issue? Or is there something else ... ? > > Mike > > > P.S. The devices in question look like this: > > > ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 /dev/sg0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 4 Feb 8 2000 /dev/cdrom -> > scd0 > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 4 2001 /dev/scd0 > crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 Feb 8 2000 /dev/sg0 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
