Re: lost access to cdrom

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:47:59PM -0500, serge delorme wrote:
> > 
> > As root it's ok but as "user" I can't access the drive even if:
> > 
> > sdelorme@ordino:~$ ll /dev/scd0
> > brw-rw----    2 root     cdrom     11,   0 jui  5  2000 /dev/scd0
> > 
> > sdelorme@ordino:~$ ll /dev/cdrom
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 jan 28 14:04 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> > 
> > sdelorme@ordino:~$ groups
> > sdelorme adm disk dialout cdrom floppy audio dip

looks good. Must have to do with the mount command I guess.
What's in your /etc/fstab?  Or aren't you refering to mounting,
but are you talking of writing to the beast with cdrecord or reading
with cdparanoia or likewise programs that don't use /dev/scd* but
instead use /dev/sg*?  In that case check that the relevant generic
scsi device (I think for you /dev/sg0) has th eproper group and
protection set.

> Try changing /dev/cdrom to be in the cdrom group.
> 
> # chown root.cdrom /dev/cdrom

you normally can't change the group of a link, it has no meaning.

-- 
groetjes, carel