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Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server



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:
> > Hello..
> > 
> > I would like to thank all of you again for your help. My system is up and 
> > running (had to reinstall the system about 3 times and I had a hard time 
> > configuring the sound card). Anyway, I still have some questions:
> > 
> > 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.

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