Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:08:55PM +, Ricardo B wrote: > To gain direct acesso to the CD-ROM (for playing music, for example) > the best way is to change the group to cdrom. /sbin/MAKEDEV just uses > root:disk as default, as he doesn't know if /dev/hdc is a CD-ROM, a hard > drive or what. If yo

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:08:55PM +, Ricardo B wrote: > To gain direct acesso to the CD-ROM (for playing music, for example) > the best way is to change the group to cdrom. /sbin/MAKEDEV just uses > root:disk as default, as he doesn't know if /dev/hdc is a CD-ROM, a hard > drive or what. If y

Re: last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread eim
Thanks, Volker for your help, I'll go and check the config files you told me. On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 19:49, Volker Dormeyer wrote: > sorry, forgot to sent it to the list... > > > - Forwarded message from Volker Dormeyer - > > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:46:40 +0100 > Subject: Re: last log

Re: last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread Volker Dormeyer
sorry, forgot to sent it to the list... - Forwarded message from Volker Dormeyer - Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:46:40 +0100 Subject: Re: last log related question To: eim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:30:56PM +0100, eim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all Happ

Re: last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread eim
I found the answers to my own question, the old wtmp file was switched to wtmp.1 during anacron, so there are my logs. Well, wtmp just logs system access from users or direct root access, but it doesnt't log any 'su' sessions. Are the su sessions only logged in /var/log/auth.log, or anywhere else

last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread eim
First of all Happy new Year to everyone on this list ! Ok now, here's my problem... I have some pubblic boxes on which I run different pubblic services oviously I check for security issues on those system in order to keep them secure. Last time I logged in as root and ran the command 'last' I saw

Re: last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread eim
Thanks, Volker for your help, I'll go and check the config files you told me. On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 19:49, Volker Dormeyer wrote: > sorry, forgot to sent it to the list... > > > - Forwarded message from Volker Dormeyer - > > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:46:40 +0100 > Subject: Re: last log

Re: last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread Volker Dormeyer
sorry, forgot to sent it to the list... - Forwarded message from Volker Dormeyer - Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:46:40 +0100 Subject: Re: last log related question To: eim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:30:56PM +0100, eim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all Hap

Re: last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread eim
I found the answers to my own question, the old wtmp file was switched to wtmp.1 during anacron, so there are my logs. Well, wtmp just logs system access from users or direct root access, but it doesnt't log any 'su' sessions. Are the su sessions only logged in /var/log/auth.log, or anywhere els

last log related question

2002-01-01 Thread eim
First of all Happy new Year to everyone on this list ! Ok now, here's my problem... I have some pubblic boxes on which I run different pubblic services oviously I check for security issues on those system in order to keep them secure. Last time I logged in as root and ran the command 'last' I sa

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Ricardo B
msg.pgp Description: PGP message

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST) Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. Not the link, the real file. /dev/hdc, or whatever it may be need

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST), Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. You can > then add users to the cdrom group and they can then mount

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread thomas fischer
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I have a hard disk on /dev/hda and a CDROM drive on /dev/hdc. > Their permissions are: > brw-rw1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hda > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hdc > I want to access the CDROM drive

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Ricardo B
msg.pgp Description: PGP message

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST) Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. Not the link, the real file. /dev/hdc, or whatever it may be nee

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST), Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. You can > then add users to the cdrom group and they can then mount

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread thomas fischer
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I have a hard disk on /dev/hda and a CDROM drive on /dev/hdc. > Their permissions are: > brw-rw1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hda > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hdc > I want to access the CDROM drive

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. You can then add users to the cdrom group and they can then mount the CDROM. Same for the floppy drive (with the "floppy" group, but you don't have to symli

the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Oohara Yuuma
I have a hard disk on /dev/hda and a CDROM drive on /dev/hdc. Their permissions are: brw-rw1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hda brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hdc I want to access the CDROM drive as a non-root user (to play my music CD). Adding m

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. You can then add users to the cdrom group and they can then mount the CDROM. Same for the floppy drive (with the "floppy" group, but you don't have to syml

the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Oohara Yuuma
I have a hard disk on /dev/hda and a CDROM drive on /dev/hdc. Their permissions are: brw-rw1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hda brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hdc I want to access the CDROM drive as a non-root user (to play my music CD). Adding