[ILUG] How do I edit user permissions in Slack 10

[Conor Wynne]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 20:33, Jaqian wrote:
> Any advice or pointers please. I recently installed Slackware 10 
> along with Gnome 2.6 (thanx Linux Format) and I've created a user 
> account with the "adduser" command. The problem is user in SW 
> can't access anything (cd-rom etc). 

What happens exactly? Do you mount it (successfully) as root, then as a
normal user try to "cd" to the mountpoint and get a "permission denied"
or what? 

> 
> 1.)How/Where do I go to change permissions? 

Depends on above. Try changing the permissions on the mountpoint and see
what happens. 
Here are my mountpoint permissions and fstab entries:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            6 2003-11-21 18:05 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            6 2004-06-27 17:38 dvd
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            6 2003-11-21 18:05 floppy

snowwhite:~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5            /                    xfs       
defaults              1 1
/dev/hda3            /boot                ext3      
defaults              1 2
/dev/hda7            /home                xfs       
defaults              1 2
/dev/hda6            swap                 swap      
pri=42                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts    
mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
proc                 /proc                proc      
defaults              0 0
usbdevfs             /proc/bus/usb        usbdevfs  
noauto                0 0
/dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         auto      
ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
/dev/dvd             /media/dvd           auto      
ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
snowwhite:~ #

Note the "user" in the options for /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom etc. 

> 2.)Also I've 256Mb mp3 player thats not seen. I selected to 
> activate hotplugging when i installed SW but i dont see it. Is 
> there some file I can edit so SW sees it?

dmesg will verify its there. It will _likely_ (I dont have one so) be
seen as a scsi device. Most things are, e.g.: cameras, pendrives etc.
So:
"cat /proc/scsi/scsi" and see if its there. 

If not, then is the module loading at boot? Check "lsmod"
If it is, is the startup script starting during boot? 

/etc/init.d/hotplug status
(I hope that's the service you mean)

> 3.) When I was installing SW i saw "sane" being installed but its 
> not in the menu. Where do I go to find it, whats the equivalent of 
> C:\Program Files in linux?

Well /usr contains most stuff. Some apps go into /opt but I seriously
doubt sane does. Addons (games, netscape etc etc) usually go into
/usr/local. But binaries or symlinks to binaries go into either /usr/bin
or /usr/local/bin. (System binaries are in /bin)
Try your luck with /usr/bin/sane, or if its in your PATH, just "sane"

But I dont have a camera and do not remember ever even installing
slackware, so this could all be rubbish :)

> Thanks in advance,
> Jaqian

Regards
Conor