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Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(



On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote:

> Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed
> like a nice way to handle it but it didnt work for me.
> 
> janet:/dev# ll cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     cdrom           8 Dec 13 04:54 cdrom -> /dev/hdc
> 
> janet:/dev# ll hdc
> brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     22,   0 Mar  3  1999 hdc
                           ^^^^^
> janet:/etc# less group
> <snip>
> cdros:x:24:rosef
  ^^^^^
> <snip>
> 
> janet:/etc# less group-
> <snip>
> cdros:x:24:rosef
> <snip>
> 
> Does anyone know whats wrong with my setup? It seems fine to me but
> IANAG (I am not a guru ;-)

your group is wrong, cdros != cdrom 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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