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Re: A rights issue???

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From: Stephen Schwetz
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
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Date: 1999/01/10
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