On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:16:41PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:19:58PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:00:30PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > > > [[snip]] > > > > > > > > When I try to use a CD Player program, it works fine under root, but under > > > > a normal account it tells me that it can't access /dev/cdrom. I believe I > > > > have the /etc/fstab file configured correctly so I'm pretty clueless on how > > > > to fix this. I have pasted my fstab file on the end of this email. > > > > > > You probably need to add yourself to the 'cdrom' group (note: Group > > > member ship is only picked up on login, so you will probably have to log > > > out and in again). > > > > Technically this is incorrect; man newgrp(1), man sg(1). No logout > > necessary. > > I stand (=sit) corrected. Technically. Unfortunately, this doesn't > change the gid of already-running processes. So if the cd player is > launched from e.g. gnome-panel, this would inherit groups from > gnome-panel. (same thing goes for other X-launcher-type-things I > presume) Good point - the panel-app problem does in fact need a logout from the current X-Session. However, if you run the command from an xterm (or the console) newgrp and/or sg can save you a lot of time. -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com Gil-galad was an Elven-king. | The Fellowship Of him the harpers sadly sing: | of the last whose realm was fair and free | the Ring between the Mountains and the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien
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