Hello Nick,

I am running libranet 2.8 debian linux.

I tried as root:

usermod -g cdrom name_of_user

and it worked! Many thanks!

Regards,

Michael Walters

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On October 30, 2004 02:19 pm, Nick W wrote:
> On October 30, 2004 02:14 pm, Michael Walters wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was able to play an audio CD using KsCD as user michael, but when I
> > tried to do the same thing as another of my users I got "Access error,
> > check permissions in dev/cdrom.
>
> on some distros [what distro are you using?] there's a cdrom group. Try [as
> root]
>
> usermod -g cdrom name_of_user
>
> > I looked in Running linux on page 103 about changing permissions but
> > could not see any examples granting permission to other users to use the
> > CD ROM.
> >
> > I went to the man pages but could not find anything on changing
> > permissions to use the CD ROM.
> >
> > I went to the /dev directory and found that I could not scroll to
> > /dev/cdrom.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael Walters
> >
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