could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

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

Earlier, I couldn't eject my CDROM as a normal user by using the "eject" 
command. I could mount it though. I could but eject the CDROM as root. I 
used to get:
$> eject /cdrom
eject: unable to open `/dev/cdrom'


The problem was the group owner ship of my cdrom(it is linked to 
/dev/hdc in my case):

earlier:
usr/src# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/hdc

Then, (thanks to:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-200012/msg04202.html 
where it is suggested *NEVER* to make a normal user a member of the 
'disk' group), I changed it to:
/usr/src# chown root:cdrom /dev/hdc
/usr/src# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     22,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/hdc

And I am already a member of 'cdrom' group. Now I can use the eject the 
command as a normal user to open/close the CD tray.

HTH somebody, since I don't recall getting a satisfactory answer when I 
asked this earlier a few weeks ago.
regards,
->HS

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