Re: adding a user to a group
xucaen@yahoo.com writes:
> Hi, How do I add a user (myself) to the group that can access the
> CD-ROM and CD-RW drives?
I'd do (as root) 'adduser xucaen cdrom', but this is only half of the
battle: the default installation blindly sets all of the disk devices
(/dev/hda, etc.) to group 'disk', but you probably don't want to be in
that group. Figure out what device(s) your CD-ROM uses (/dev/sr0 for
SCSI or IDE-SCSI, possibly /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc for IDE but no
guarantees, try catting /proc/ide/hd?/model), and also change those
(as root) to group 'cdrom'.
# adduser xucaen cdrom
# chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc
This won't make it possible to burn CDs as a user; you need to be root
for that. (RTF HOWTO.) If you want to mount CDs on those devices,
make sure there's a relevant line in /etc/fstab with the 'user' flag set.
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