Re: cd drive config

[Linas Žvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com>]

>>> kscd says "CDROM read or access error / please make sure you have access
>>> permissions to /dev/cdrom" which seems to be missing the point.
>>
>> Are you in the "disk" group?
> 
> No no no, "disk" is the wrong group. It allows raw access to hard
> drives, meaning that it would become really easy to mess up the entire
> system. The correct group to add yourself to is "cdrom".

I was a bit too quick posting this. It seems that "/dev/hdc" on the said
system is in fact owned by "root:disk". This is wrong nonetheless. On my
system I have...

 ls -al /dev/hd*
 brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 0 2006-04-09 02:31 /dev/hda
 brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 1 2006-04-09 02:31 /dev/hda1
 brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 2 2006-04-09 02:31 /dev/hda2
 brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2006-04-09 02:31 /dev/hdc

Are you sure your "/dev/hdc" is in fact a CD-ROM? If it is, you should
"chown root:cdrom /dev/hdc" and add yourself to "cdrom" group. As I have
already said, being in a "disk" group is very dangerous.