[clug] cdrom and groups
Francis James Whittle
fudje at phreaker.net
Thu Apr 22 13:11:07 GMT 2004
cdparanoia uses the SCSI Generic interface, check permissions for
/dev/sg0 ;)
cdparanoia could probably admittedly do a better job of telling people
*why* it didn't find an accessible SCSI generic interface.
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 00:35, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote:
> Feeling kinda silly, but this has been bugging me for a few days now. I
> can't use cdparanoia (or ripperx) unless I'm root, but as far as I can
> tell, all the group permissions should allow me to.
>
> Transcript below shows that I'm in group cdrom, but cdparanoia fails to
> find the cdrom unless I'm root. I even logged back out and into X in
> the Windows-esqu off-chance that it would help. Shoulda had more faith
> :-)
>
> What am I doing wrong?
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