On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:19:58PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:00:30PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > > [[snip]] > > > > > > When I try to use a CD Player program, it works fine under root, but > > > under > > > a normal account it tells me that it can't access /dev/cdrom. I believe I > > > have the /etc/fstab file configured correctly so I'm pretty clueless on > > > how > > > to fix this. I have pasted my fstab file on the end of this email. > > > > You probably need to add yourself to the 'cdrom' group (note: Group > > member ship is only picked up on login, so you will probably have to log > > out and in again). > > Technically this is incorrect; man newgrp(1), man sg(1). No logout > necessary.
I stand (=sit) corrected. Technically. Unfortunately, this doesn't change the gid of already-running processes. So if the cd player is launched from e.g. gnome-panel, this would inherit groups from gnome-panel. (same thing goes for other X-launcher-type-things I presume) -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign x - Say NO to HTML in email / \ - Say NO to Word documents in email (and Macros!)
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