Re: play audio cd with normal user

["Timeboy" <timohart@gmx.at>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:20:26 +0200 (CEST), qmichiel@xs4all.nl wrote:

> ** I've got sound working for normal users and I can mount one of two cdrom
> ** drives with normal users by using a link (/dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc) to it.
> ** It's than mounted to /cdrom.
> ** When I'm root I can play a audio cd in /dev/hdc just by clicking on /cdrom
> ** (why this is I don't know) but when I'm a normal user I can't open the cd
> ** anywhere.
> ** And when I want to mount the cd I need to give mount the type of filesystem
> ** and I don't know what the filesystem is (it's a normal audio cd with .cda
> ** tracks).
> ** I allready added the user to the group of /dev/hd* 

You don't need to mount your CD-Rom drive for playing audio CD's. The kernel
can't read audio CD's and there is no filsystem that you could use with mount.
Your software CD player will read your audio CD's without mount.

But you need to give your CD player the permission to read from /dev/hdc. So
you can change the permissions for /dev/hdc or add the users to the group disk:

#addgroup username disk

After this, you have read and write permissions to all drives (hd*) as user and 
your CD player will work as user too.

Timo