Re: CDROM permission problems Gnome 2.6
Hi,
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:44:29 +1200, david abernethy
<david.abernethy@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> My problem is that I can't rip audio cd's logged in as an ordinary user
> using sound-juicer, but I can logged in as root. I also can't write CDs
> using nautilus CD burner
>
> here is the output of the id command for user david
> uid=1000(david) gid=100(users)
> groups=24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),100(users)
>
> here are the device links and permissions (I have a scsi cdrom)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 4 2004-08-14 19:45 /dev/sr0 -> scd0
> brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2004-06-05 20:05 /dev/scd0
> here is the relevant line from my fstab
> /dev/sr0 /cdrom auto ro,user,noauto 0 0
> symlinking /dev/cdrom to scd0 did not help
>
> I'm using progeny component linux kernel 2.6.7 and Gnome 2.6
> any suggestions?
>
Hi,
if you want to do this I think the easiest way will be to add your
user to the cdrom group.
e.g.: adduser <username> cdrom
greets,
Wim
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