Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:02:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote:
> > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the
> > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an
> > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks
> > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what.
>
> chmod /dev/hd? a+r
Talk about killing a fly with a shotgun...
This solution would make all IDE drives world-readable as raw
devices, allowing enterprising users to sift through the contents of
your (IDE) hard drives to see such things as the contents of
/etc/shadow or any passwords that may have been stored in memory
which was subsequently swapped out to disk.
Yeah, it'll work, but (even on a single-user home system) do you
really want to open up all those extra holes? Either just do the
CDROM device (usually /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd - check to see what
/dev/cdrom is linked to if you're not sure) or add your user account
to the audio group instead.
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have already won. - reverius
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