Re: using my /dev items - playing CDs
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:42:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> no you need to add yourself to the cdrom group and perhaps change the
> group on the cdrom device to `cdrom' (only if its an ide cdrom)
>
> > Glancing at my /etc/group file, it looks like that's what I did..
>
> that is an exceedingly bad thing to do, you are now running with as
> good as root privileges full time. (take a look at the permissions on
> the device for your hard disk, root partition, and any other
> partitions to see what i mean)
>
> i don't think i need to explain why running as root all the time is
> bad.
Ack. Thank you for pointing that out, Ethan... I changed my groups
immediately. To John, I apologize for my bad advice. :(
Tom
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