On 23/1/2000 David J. Kanter wrote:
OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well?
are you sure /dev/hdc is your cdrom device? the /dev/cdrom is just a symlink so its permissions are irrelevant. also you did logout and login again after adding yourself to the right group yes?
are you a member of group audio? this is needed to access the sound card devices /dev/audio and /dev/dsp
its annoying that xfreecd does not say WHAT device permission was denied to... Ethan