Setting '/dev/sg2' to group 'cdrom' + 'chmod g+rw' did the trick. Thanks.
Tim
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:47:57AM -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
I'm having an access permission problem with my cd-rw drive. I switched
it to ide-scsi (added hdc=ide-scsi to boot parameters) and now I can
write to the drive with cdrecord, but only as root. Similarly, I can
Here the cdrom/writer is acces through /dev/sg*,
you'll have to change group/permissions to allow access.
only rip tracks from the drive as root. I can mount data cd's and read
Here they are accessed through /dev/scd*,
and you probably changed group/permissions on /dev/hdc to allow access.
them as a regular user (configured "user" in fstab). Before I switched
to ide-scsi, I could rip cd's just fine as a regular user with group
Then the cdrom/writer was acces through /dev/hdc,
and you probably changed group/permissions on /dev/hdc to allow access.
...
P.S. Hmmm... just noticed that all /dev/sg* devices have only root
permissions... should I chgrp them to "disk" and add group rw
permissions? Create a "scsi" group?
change those that really correspond to cdrom drives to group cdrom,
and add g+rw permission to those only.
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Timothy H. Keitt
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
