Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.
Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody).
Pointer?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
>
> > The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed
> > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices
> > are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default)
> > scd devices are group audio, perm 0660, and my cdripper account is in the
> > audio group.
> >
> > Currently, I have two hard drives and two cdrom drives in this machine.
> > The hard drives are at IDs 0 and 1, and the cdrom drives are at IDs 5 and
> > 6.
> >
> > ID: generic:
> > 0 sg0
> > 1 sg1
> > 5 sg2
> > 6 sg3
> >
> > Now I want to connect an external hard drive to my machine, so I have more
> > storage space for my music collection. I set this drive to ID 3.
> >
> > ID: generic:
> > 0 sg0
> > 1 sg1
> > 3 sg2
> > 5 sg3
> > 6 sg4
> >
> > Notice that now my external hard drive has access by audio group through
> > the generic device, and my second cdrom drive is no longer accessable by
> > the audio group.
>
> To circumvent this problem, you could use the scsidev package to create
> the appropriate nodes in /dev/scsi/ and set permissions on them. These
> permissions will be preserved on reboots. The major and minor device
> numbers will be adjusted if necessary at every reboot.
> "/dev/scsi/sgh24-6c00c0i3l0" will always point at LUN 0 of the device with
> ID 3 on bus 0 of the SYM5c8xx scsi-adapter at memory address 6c000. You do
> need to run scsidev again if you add scsi devices while Linux is running,
> though.
>
> Remco
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