hi, i am trying to get either krabber or grip to work as a normal user rather than having to rip mp3s as root everytime which is what i have to do at the moment, apart from the hassle of starting a new x session and the principle involved (why be root if it's not system maintenance?) all files created have root ownership and this leaves me more work! i have worked out - i think- that the problem has to do with how progs such as cdparanoia and cdrecord access the cdrom drive and it's permissions, i posted to the newbie group but i got no reply so i am posting it here: could some kind soul tell me where i have gone wrong in my thinking: 1. cdparanoia will run as the user calling the program if not setuid or setgid - is this right? 2. if my user - bascule- is a member of group 'cdrom' then whatever group 'cdrom' has permission to do, bascule does too - is this right? 3. if /dev/scd0 has permissions 660 with owner root and group cdrom then group 'cdrom' has the same access to /dev/scd0 as root - is this right? 4. therefore when bascule runs cdparanoia, cdparanoia has access to /dev/scd0 without havingto be setuid - is this right? the point being that without being setuid cdparanoia doesn't work and i can't see why please help bascule
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