[ale] cdrom access

[Mike Kachline]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Gary S. Mackay wrote:

> I finally have sound, network, etc., etc. all working just fine. My problem
> now is that when I login as anyone other than root, I cannot run the 'cd
<snip>

	You've got a couple of choices, of course depending on how tightly
secured you wish for your box to be. If you're using this machine at home
and are not too concerned with security, then I would suggest logging in
as root and "chmod o+r /dev/cdrom" as well as "chmod o+r /dev/xxx" where
"xxx" is what ls -l /dev/cdrom points to. This will make it s.t. your
cdrom device is readable by "others" (ie, pretty much anyone with an
account on your machine).


	If you want to get even more spiffy though, you could create a
"cdrom" group in /etc/group, add your regular user to this group, chgrp
/dev/cdrom to this group, then "chmod g+r /dev/cdrom". This would allow
you to hand pick which users you want to allow access to your CD-Rom.


							- Mike
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