On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:52:35PM +0000, Mark Page wrote:
> A bit of an oddity. I can run kscd with no problems at all but if I try
> and run grip or any gnome cd player I get an error message to the effect
> that I do not, as a user (not root), have access to the cdrom drive.
>> I can mount the cdrom at the command line with no problem at all. What's
> going on? Is it a problem with permissions?
What else ? kscd on SuSE 7 is installed setuid root so it has of course no
problems accessing the CD. The mount entry for the CD has the user option so
mount (which is of course also a setuid root program) allows ordinary users
to mount a CD. By default, SuSE 7 does not give ordinary users read access to
disk devices. To solve your problems, the easiest thing to do is the
following which you must do as root
cd /dev
chmod a+r `ls -l cdrom|awk '{print $11}'`
which gives all users read access to the device to which cdrom is a symbolic
link. If your machine is used by you at home, this is just fine. In a
situation where you only wanted to allow certain users to access the CD
you'd need to make those users members of the disk group.
Regards,
Niall
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