Re: "eject" command only works for root

[Paul Brossier <piem-lists@altern.org>]

sudo addgroup $USER cdrom

On Thursday 31 July 2003 14:02, Robert Storey wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The "eject" command (which opens the CD tray) works as expected if I run
> it as root. But as a common user, typing "eject" on the command line
> brings up this error message:
>
>   bob@sonic:~> eject
>   eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
>
> I took a look at the permissions for "eject":
>
>   bob@sonic:~> ls -l /usr/bin/eject
>   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14332 Apr 25  2001 /usr/bin/eject
>
> Common users can mount/unmount the drive - this is from /etc/fstab:
>
>    /dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0
>   0
>
> So I'm perplexed as to what is preventing common users from being able
> to open the drive with the "eject" command.
>
> regards,
> Robert