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Re: chmod????



dotto@uchicago.edu writes:

> OK, this one's new to me (of course, all most anything is with Debian). I'm
> trying to tweak the permissions on my cdrom so that I can use it as a regular
> user. I've already successfully changed the group for the cdrom, but now when I
> chmod g+rw /dev/cdrom, nothing changes. How can I get this to work right? Anyone?

/dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to the actual device descriptor. 
ls -l /dev/cdrom should tell you what the real device is, so that you
can chmod it. 

Fabrice



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