On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 18:02, Brian Nelson wrote: > Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:03, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play cds as a > > >> regular user. I am in both the audio and cdrom groups, which was > > >> sufficient on potato, but no go. What am I missing? > > > > > > Probably the right group owner of your cdrom drive. What does the owner > > > and group say for /dev/hdX or /dev/scdX where X is whatever the > > > appropriate device is. If it's not group cdrom change so it's correct. > > > Otherwise post the output of ls -al /dev/hd? and ls -al /dev/scd with > > > additional information as to what type of drive and what programs you > > > are using to play cd audio. > > > > Yes, I was supposed to be int the disk group. Thank you. > > That doesn't sound right. The disk is a very dangerous group for a > normal user, since it gives you rw access directly to the /dev/hd* and > /dev/sd* files, thereby making it easy to totally trash your hard disks. > > Normally, audio and cdrom groups should be sufficient, or at least > that's true on this sid system.
I agree, just change the group owner of the cdrom device to cdrom so you don't accidentally screw a disk up sometime down the road. --mike
