Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:01:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 07/16/01 00:18:38 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
> > Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device
> > (/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not
> > part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that
> > helps.
>
> I saw that the device I was trying to access belonged to the disk group.
> I didn't add myself because I wasn't sure about it from a security
> standpoint. Also, I didn't know if there was a different approach.
It is not good, from a security standpoint.
Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that
group instead of disk.
> I just added myself and logged in again. I'm now able to play my audio
> CDs.
Cheers,
Joost
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