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Re: permssions



> I am new at this, so this may be a simple question.  I recently
> installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working.  However I
> am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root.  When I try
> to listen as user, I get a message that says I cannot access the cdrom
> because permission is denied.  I am not sure how to set the permissions
> so that I have access to the cdrom as user. I was hoping that someone
> could help me out with this.

chgrp cdrom /dev/<your-cd-device>

then open /etc/group and add yourself to this cdrom group.

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