Re: device permisions to non root users ?$@"?

[Ron Flory <ron.flory@adtran.com>]

Mark Sanchez wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I want a non root to be able to use the CDROM (to
> listen to NIN while programming!:), after reading an
> answer to this list to a similar question I did:
> 
> addgroup mark cdrom
> 
> to add user mark to the CDROM group but still cant
> access!.
> 
> /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hda and this shows:
> rwx r-x ---  root cdrom /dev/hda (group cdrom rx
> permisions)
> 
> I checked that user mark is actually added to group
> cdrom (in /etc/group you read cdrom: mark)
> 
> Any ideas ?, ( root can listen to NIN:( )

 /dev/hda needs to have non-root read access.

 append ',user' to the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab


 works for me....

ron