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[Sorry for the late reply; I got behind on the list and am getting
caught up.]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:50:46PM -0700, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> Actually, try this. As root, add your username to the
> disk group (if /dev/hdc is in the disk group, like on
> my RH system) and see if xmms can use your cdrom when
> you're logged in as your user.

That's a really *bad* idea.  If you add yourself to the disk group, then
you have absolutely no protection against errant programs doing the
equivalent of "cat /dev/random >/dev/hda".

Much better is to add yourself to the cdrom group (see vigr(8)), then
"chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc".

> It should read something like this:
> disk:x:6:root,username
> where username is, of course, your username.

Root shouldn't need to be in *any* groups.  At best, it's superfluous.
I mean, I guess it doesn't *hurt* if root is listed on every line in
/etc/group, but the root account already has complete permission to
anything on the system already.

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Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
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where you might be swept off to."  --  Bilbo Baggins

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