On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 01:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:19:47PM -0700, Grant wrote: > > Here are my /dev/cdrom permissions: > > > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Sep 12 06:08 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 > > > > that's a symlink... the permissions on it doesn't reflect that of the > actual device. > > try ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 > > > gxine executes as root, but not as a normal user. Aren't those permissions > > OK > > By execute, do you mean load and run the program, or play a movie from > /dev/cdrom?
are you in the cdrom group?? uid=500(gentoo) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),32(gdm),35(games),80(cdrw),81(apache),100(users),250(portage),445(plugdev) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:36:05 up 5:10, 9 users, load average: 2.57, 2.36, 2.33 -- [email protected] mailing list
