Allow me to follow up with something more specific and less verbose: I have two IDE CDs (CD/DVD in /dev/hdc and CD-R in /dev/hdd).
I had /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdc. /dev/hdc is group "audio" and user "moseley" is part of that group -- I have permissions to read /dev/cdrom (/dev/hdc). xmms works fine. mplayer playing DVDs works, fine, too. Now, on to CD-R in /dev/hdd. I setup up hdd=ide-scsi. /dev/scd* is set group "cdrom". cdrecord is set guid "cdrom". This allowed me to read and write to the CD-R drive. Now, it would be nice to have access to both CD drives (in xcdroast). So I added hdd=ide-scsi, and made /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0. Now both CD drives show up as scsi drives. That works fine, but of course I (user "moseley") can't access /dev/cdrom directly with xmms, since I'm not part of the "cdrom" group. I can add myself to that group, but then I don't see the point of the set gid for cdrecord. If I add myself to group "cdrom" then those don't need to be set guid. So, what's the solution for things like xmms and mplayer that access /dev/cdrom directly. Do they need to be set guid "cdrom", too? -- Bill Moseley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
