Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

kmark@pipeline.com wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > First of all a little background:
>
> <snip>
>
> > To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then
>
> I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ]
> nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors). 
>
> This is a know bug, the mailing list has fix.
>
> <snip> 
>
> > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many 
>
> issues unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL 
> modem (use "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make 
> a normal user able to connect using dsl-provide? At present, 
> only root can do that.
>
>
> I believe this a permission issue. you have to be part of the dialout
> group. So, as root, 'addgroup kevin dialout' where kevin is the new
> user.
>
>
> > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do
>
> I make normal user also be able to use that as well?
>
>
> another permission issue, not sure if its 'adduser kevin cdrom'???

I just added myself to that group, now I am member of these grups too: 
cdrom audio dip

My fstab entries are:
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0
#added for mounting CDRW. 14Nov2003, HS.
/dev/scd0       /cdrom1         iso9660 user,ro,noauto          0       0


And here is whaht I get:
{tmp}> eject
eject: unable to open `/dev/cdrom'
{tmp}> eject /cdrom
eject: unable to open `/dev/cdrom'
{tmp}>


But "eject /cdrom1" works just fine.

->HS
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