On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:39:05PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> When I'm trying to grab sound track from my CD like this
> cdparanoia -v -g /dev/rcd0d 1 track-01.wav
> (this way is documented in NetBSD guide)
> I have the following error.
> 
> 0 ~>cdparanoia -v -g /dev/rcd0d 1 track-01.wav
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> (C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
> 
> Report bugs to paranoia@xiph.org
> http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
> 
>  Testing /dev/rcd0d for SCSI interface
>    generic device: /dev/rcd0d
>    ioctl device: /dev/rcd0d
>       Could not open generic SCSI device /dev/rcd0d: Permission denied
> 
> 1 ~>
> 
> I'm a member of 'operator' group
> but this doesn't help.

Are you sure the 'operator' group has write access to /dev/rcd0d ?

> Should cdparanoia be installed using suid bit enabled.
> If yes, should I send-pr about this or somebody from this mailing list
> can fix this?
> 
> P.S.
> Why /dev/[r]cd* and /dev/[r]wd* devices have the same group ownership
> 'operator' in NetBSD?  Isn't better to switch /dev/cd* group to

All disk devices are like this.

> from 'operator' to 'cdrom' group or something similar?

Maybe. You can do it yourself on your system for now :-)

Pavel