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Article #47418Re: A rights issue???
From: Stephen Schwetz
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:00
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yep this is what I did once and it worked redhat 5.0 steve Paul Colquhoun wrote in message ... >On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:26:35 GMT, aavera@cyberramp.net <aavera@cyberramp.net> wrote: >|I'm very new to Linux. I have been a minion of the evil Microsoft empire(I >|have my MCSE) and now I'm defecting to Linux/Unix. >| >|I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2. My question involves what I think is a rights >|issue with my CD-ROM player. I have installed a cd player application that >|works great while I'm logged in as root, but when I log into my personal >|account, it doesn't work. I have given my personal account "superuser" >|rights in linuxconf, and all the other rights also, but still the application >|will not respond. By the way, I'm using Xfree86 (After-something) as my GUI. >| >|Where can I find the CD-ROM object in my file manager so that I can define >|what group it belongs to? Can the CD-ROM, or any file or other managable >|object belong to more than one group? -Andy >| > > >This is to play music CDs, yes? > >The device file is called /dev/cdrom >It will be a link to the real /dev/xxx device, which varies >depending on whether you have an IDE or SCSI CDROM. > >ls -l /dev/cdrom > >will show you the proper device name. You need to change the >permissions on the device with chmod. > >chmod 666 /dev/cdrom > >should actually work. If not, substitute the real device name. > > >-- >Reverend Paul Colquhoun, paulcol+sig@andor.dropbear.id.au >Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol >-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- >xenaphobia: The fear of being beaten to a pulp by > a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,f77cdbd9e2397d31 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: "Stephen Schwetz" <darteng@aljan.com.au> Subject: Re: A rights issue??? Date: 1999/01/10 Message-ID: <915916610.441493@smiggly.aljan.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 430678474 Cache-Post-Path: smiggly.aljan.com.au!unknown@arnold-15.aljan.com.au References: <77160o$nvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <slrn79d5cm.d2i.paulcol@gate.andor.dropbear.id.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 915920533 203.26.188.10 (Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:22:13 EST) Organization: Aljan.Net Internet -- Phone +61-2-49-577959 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:22:13 EST Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux