Re: Sound programs
Brad <lists@anomie.dhis.org> writes:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
>
> > Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is
> > a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd.
>
> And if so, you'll probably have to add yourself to group disk, chown the
> /dev/hd? to group audio, or chmod it so all users can read/write it.
Which of these three is generally recommended as the best practice?
Adding myself to the group disk certainly seems like a bad idea, since
it appears that it would mean that I would have direct access to the
hard disks as a regular user, thus making it really easy to screw
something up.
Something seems a little weird about making a device world writeable,
without any restriction, but I can't particularly see the harm as a cd
rom is a read-only device.
On the other hand, making the cdrom owned by group audio also seems a
bit weird, as it is not fundamentally an audio device; it just happens
to have audio data sometimes.
Thanks.
A semi-newbie trying to learn good practices,
--Miguel
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