Re: no audio cds
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:57:49AM +1100, CaT wrote:
> 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. :)
Yep. In testing and unstable, see
/usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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