On Friday 18 March 2005 22:46, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:51, Albrecht Dreà wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a little confused about using xcdroast on YDL 4.01 on a PowerMac G4 > > "Silver" with a self-compiled kernel 2.6.10. > > > > Following the hints in the kernel sources, I dropped ide-scsi and > > configured xcdroast to use /dev/hdc as reader and writer device, which in > > turn loads the modules ide_cd and cdrom. > > > > Problem 1: regular users can not access the device through xcdroast, > > although the permissions are fine. Only root is able to see the device > > and an inserted disk. > > I don't have this problem. On my system /dev/cdrom is a link pointing > to /dev/hda, which seems to be owned my me, although I don;t know why. > Hmm, just a wild guess here, since I don't have a cd writer to test this with (and right now not even a ydl installation to see default config options)...
Could it be the mount point for the writer is configured differently in /etc/fstab for Albert vs Joseph ? I know there are some options you could add to an entry like "user", which makes the cd-writer mountable by the user. Mandrake even has something such as supermount, which does a similar thing. But I don't know of any details here. You could check this. But maybe I'm just waaaaaaay off. Cheers, Geert Jan _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
