Re: CD Burner Permissions
Stephen Gran <gashuffer09@home.com> writes:
SG> I've forgotten how I set my user accounts so they can burn CD's as
SG> mortals. I'm adding a new user, and these are the steps so far taken:
...
SG> ls -l /dev/scd0
SG> brwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 11 2001 /dev/scd0
SG>
SG> So - adduser jane cdrom
SG>
SG> Completes normally, but still no permission to write to drive. I seem
SG> to remember that there are different /dev/ entries, one for reading and
SG> one for writing, and I can't remember what the one for writing is so
SG> that I can add poor jane to the correct group. It seems to be
SG> brainfarts all around for me lately.
You also need to tweak the generic device, which is probably /dev/sga
or /dev/sg0 or something along those lines. (And lives in a somewhat
hard-to-find place if you're using devfs, but so does the normal
device file that /dev/scd0 would be a symlink to.) Interestingly, you
also need read access to the generic device to use cdparanoia.
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David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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