[plug] Need help with grip under SuSE 8.1

[Richard Meyer]

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                      Andrew Furey                                                                                                  
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>> I get a message from the CD player that either a
>> CD is not in the tray or my permissions are wrong
>> for the CD/ROM. I have checked /dev/cdrom, and the
>> permissions are rwx for everything (owner, group,
>> world).

>Is /dev/cdrom a symlink to your real (IDE?) device,
>perchance? (In which case it will always come up rwx
>for everyone.) Try checking the permissions on the
>device it links to.

Yes, it is. Points to /dev/hdb whose permissions are somewhat "more
restrictive" rwx for owner who is root, and nothing for anybody else. Group
is disk (IIRC).

D'you suggest I update the group permissions and add the users to the
group, or just give rwx permissions to world + dog?

Cheers
RichardM
HTH
Andrew

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