RE: configuration for cdrecord and readcd?
yes, what i do to be able to use cdparanoia as a user (same situation I
think) is make a 'scsi' group, add the users I want, then change the
group of /dev/sg* to 'scsi'.
/usr/doc/cdparanoia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A. Miller [SMTP:mmiller3@iupui.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:21 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: configuration for cdrecord and readcd?
>
> When I try to use readcd, which is part of the cdrecord package,
> I'm told
>
> > readcd dev=$SCSI_BUS,$SCSI_ID,$SCSI_LUN
> f=/mnt/jaz.ext2/miller/aha2001.image.readcd
> readcd: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.
>
> I have lots of questions that I think are scsi permissions
> related... What is /dev/sg0? How does it differ from /dev/scd0?
> How can I allow normal users to use readcd? Once upon a time, I
> used suidregister on cdrecord so that I could use it as a normal
> user, as in "suidregister /usr/bin/cdrecord root cdburners 4710".
> Is that recommended for readcd? Or is it a device permissions
> issue? Or is there something else ... ?
>
> Mike
>
>
> P.S. The devices in question look like this:
>
> > ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 /dev/sg0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 4 Feb 8 2000 /dev/cdrom ->
> scd0
> brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 4 2001 /dev/scd0
> crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 Feb 8 2000 /dev/sg0
>
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