> > What is the One True Debian way to allow users access to special devices such > as > floppies, CD-ROM drives and modems (ie., ppp, efax and minicom)? > > But simply doing the following for user foo does not work (at least on my > 2.1 system): > > # addgroup foo floppy > # addgroup foo audio > # addgroup foo dip > > > Is there something else to it? Or a better method? There's several Optional > packages for managing permissions (sudo, super, suidmanager) and a number of > other, unlegant ways to do this involving /etc/fstab edits and chmoding > device files; I was hoping to avoid this. >
That SHOULD work. The user must logout and back in. do a 'groups' as the user to make sure they are in the group. Then check the /dev entries and make sure that they are owned by group the user is a member of. The group acdess depends on the group owning the device.
