Re: Playing cds in SId

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 18:02, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org> writes:
> 
> > Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:03, Henrik Enberg wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> Hi,
> > >> 
> > >> I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play cds as a
> > >> regular user.  I am in both the audio and cdrom groups, which was
> > >> sufficient on potato, but no go.  What am I missing?
> > >
> > > Probably the right group owner of your cdrom drive.  What does the owner
> > > and group say for /dev/hdX or /dev/scdX where X is whatever the
> > > appropriate device is.  If it's not group cdrom change so it's correct. 
> > > Otherwise post the output of ls -al /dev/hd? and ls -al /dev/scd with
> > > additional information as to what type of drive and what programs you
> > > are using to play cd audio.
> > 
> > Yes, I was supposed to be int the disk group.  Thank you.
> 
> That doesn't sound right.  The disk is a very dangerous group for a
> normal user, since it gives you rw access directly to the /dev/hd* and
> /dev/sd* files, thereby making it easy to totally trash your hard disks.
> 
> Normally, audio and cdrom groups should be sufficient, or at least
> that's true on this sid system.

I agree, just change the group owner of the cdrom device to cdrom so you
don't accidentally screw a disk up sometime down the road.

--mike