Re: chmod????
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-04-27 00:13:18 -0500, dotto@uchicago.edu wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The right way to do is probably to let the group unchanged and to
> put yourself in the disk group.
You should never put yourself in group disk. This gives you raw rw
access to all your disk devices and partitions, which is very dangerous.
Just change the group of the cdrom device to group cdrom
Sjoerd
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