[ale] no permissions on hdb(cdrom)

Tyler Kiley tyler at kianta.com
Tue Apr 30 11:18:05 EDT 2002


Are you using devfs?  If so take a look at /etc/devfsd.conf.

Adding a line to fstab will let you mount a cd, but that won't let you play or 
rip audio directly from /dev/hdb, unfortunately.

Tyler

On Monday 29 April 2002 10:40 pm, Cade Thacker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem. Everytime I reboot, I have to go in as root and
> chmod a+r hdb(ie cdrom), so that any other user can listen to audio.
> anybody have anythoughts on this? I have also had to do this with
> /dev/audio.  Am I missing something stupid here?
>
> Thanks...
>
>
> --cade
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