On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:39:33AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Radim Gelner wrote: > > > > On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is > > owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using > > cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some > > security threat? > > should be fine, just make sure to change it back if you rearrange your > hardware so a disk ends up on /dev/hdb. Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed like a nice way to handle it but it didnt work for me.
janet:/dev# ll cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 8 Dec 13 04:54 cdrom -> /dev/hdc janet:/dev# ll hdc brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 3 1999 hdc janet:/etc# less group <snip> cdros:x:24:rosef <snip> janet:/etc# less group- <snip> cdros:x:24:rosef <snip> Does anyone know whats wrong with my setup? It seems fine to me but IANAG (I am not a guru ;-) -- Frisco Rose "By any other name, I would smell the same" E.O.U. Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] (541) 962-2987 Science Journal Ed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOU Hoke Center 307 (541) 962-3787 La Grande, OR. 97850
