Re: CD Audio tracks/file system
Yep, that's exactely what I've done - both /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc* are chown
root.cdrom
Then make sure that you are adduser <yourself> cdrom, and everything works as
it should!
Matthew
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 10:31:27 -0500, Scott Patterson said:
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> >I had done that, but overlooked one small fact; I was in the cdrom group,
> >but not the disk group, to which /dev/hdc was pointed. I had no rights to
> >physically scan the CD for tracks!
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> >How has everyone else set up the permissions for their IDE /dev/cdrom links?
> >I don't like being in the disk group, I just hope it's usually automatically
> >set up the *proper* way and I just wrecked it myself...
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> I'm guessing that ALL /dev/hd? are setup as group "disk". What I did and I
> believe is the *proper* procedure, is simply change the group of /dev/hdc (or
> whatever your CDROM is) from "disk" to "cdrom" ("chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc"). Of
> course, any users that need access should be in the "cdrom" group. Use "adduser
> username cdrom" to do that and have the user log out, then log in again for the
> changes to take place.
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> Scott
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