xmms user can't access CDROM

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:54, Bill Jonas wrote:
> [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".

Thanks for the suggestion, much better idea.

> > 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.

Tell that to RedHat. Comes that way, stock. The root account is
tacked on to groups root, bin, daemon, sys, adm, disk and wheel...
Mind you, I'm using RH 7.1... Soon to upgrade to Gentoo once I get
a new system (just don't want to work on it just yet).