On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [snip] > > It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping > > /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom.... > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are using shadow passwords just adding > a user to /etc/group manually is not enough, you have to use adduser or > some other method to set it in /etc/group-.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I think you can just add users to groups in /etc/group (though I don't know if you can add whole groups like that). I have done that quite often and it seems to work (I'm using shadow). -Dan