On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:23:33PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote:
>
> Thanks for pointing out how dumb it is being a member of disk group. I was
> just
> removing myself ( ;-) ) and noticed that in addition to the group dip (needed
> to be able to use pon), there was a group dialout. What is this
Matthew Sackman writes:
> ...there was a group dialout. What is this group doing there?
'dialout' is the group for the serial ports.
> and under which circumstances would one ever need to be a member of it?
To open a serial port. You don't have to be in dialout to run pon because
pppd is setuid
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 00:03:15 -0900, Ethan Benson said:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER*
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id
> > uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro),
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER*
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id
> uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro),
> 0(root),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk), 20(dialout),24(cdrom),
> 25(floppy),29(audi
Ethan Benson wrote:
> NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER*
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id
uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro),
0(root),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk), 20(dialout),24(cdrom),
25(floppy),29(audio),50(staff),60(games),45(usb)
*cough*
shoot me :P
nate
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:35PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote:
>
> > I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure
> > enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the
> > job?
> >
>
> You don't mount aud
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote:
> I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure
> enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the
> job?
>
You don't mount audio CDs
make sure you're part of the appropriate group to access /dev/cdrom (o
I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure
enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the
job?
What's the best way to play a music CD in debian?
Robin
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