On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Jeff Flowers wrote:

> > That won't quite do it -- you need to be able to *write* to
> > the device to rip. I do that, and change rcd0d to mod 664.
>
> This is probably a silly question but why would you need write
> permissions to rip a CD? Isn't that purely a read operation?

It's true that you only open the device for reading, but the ioctls
that tell it what blocks to fetch evidently enforce write permissions.
(Maybe that's a bug?)

Frederick