Hello! I'd like to be able to run "hddtemp" <http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php> with "plain" user rights - ie. not with root rights. What's to be done, so that this is possible?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ LC_ALL=C hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 21. Jan 09:09 /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ id uid=1000(alexander) gid=100(users) Gruppen=4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),16(cron),17(console),18(audio),19(cdrom),35(games),80(cdrw),100(users),250(portage),410(plugdev) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la `which hddtemp` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27712 21. Jan 08:02 /usr/sbin/hddtemp As you can see, I get the error message "Permission denied" when I run "hddtemp /dev/hda". As you can further see, the group disk has read-/write-access on the device file. And lastly, you can see that my user is member of the group "disk". Why do I get the Permission denied error message? And what's to be done? I do NOT want to set hddtemp set-uid root. Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
