On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:57:49AM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > > > You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device > > > (that is, /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give empty anyway, but xmms > > > will be able to load audio tracks. > > > Easier way is to add yourself to group "disk", if I can remember. > > > > NO!!!!! > > > > Adding an user to the "disk" group will give him low-level read and > > write permissions to all IDE devices. That said, he can either by > > accident, or (if it is a non-private box) voluntarily overwrite the > > whole hd with the "dd" command. > > Indeed. > > > Better way is: find out which device actually is the cdrom > > device[1], then > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] chown root.audio /dev/<cddevice> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] addgroup user audio > > Better still, use the cdrom group which is there for a reason I think. :)
Yep. In testing and unstable, see /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
