Subject: Re: Letting non-root users have access to the CD-ROM
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@unixiron.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/14/2001 06:10:57
Hi !

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. I have just found the package-of-the-month
> (pkgsrc/audio/abcde), and it looks very spiffy. However, I would love
> to run it as a regular user, not as root, but it needs to have access
> to /dev/rcd0d. This is on a single-user system so I am not at all
> worried about multiple people trying to get access to the CD-ROM. How
> do I make /dev/rcd0d accessible to non-root folks?

For read access, just put these users into the group operator.
For write access, use chmod 660 /dev/rcd0d also. I use cdrecord and so as
standarf user. This is what groups and file modes are for...

...Michael

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