Re: no audio cds
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote:
> > You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device (that is,
> > /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give empty anyway, but xmms will be able to load
> > audio tracks.
> > Easier way is to add yourself to group "disk", if I can remember.
>
> NO!!!!!
>
> Adding an user to the "disk" group will give him low-level read and write
> permissions to all IDE devices. That said, he can either by accident, or (if
> it is a non-private box) voluntarily overwrite the whole hd with the "dd"
> command.
Indeed.
> Better way is: find out which device actually is the cdrom device[1], then
> root@box# chown root.audio /dev/<cddevice>
> root@box# addgroup user audio
Better still, use the cdrom group which is there for a reason I think. :)
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