[gentoo-user] OT - Weird cdrom issue

[Michael Sullivan]

My wife's computer (catherine) has a combo drive.  When I go to
"Computer" in nautilus on my computer I see "Floppy Drive",
"CDRW/DVD-ROM Drive", "Filesystem", and "Network".  When she goes to
"Computer" on hers, she only sees "Filesystem" and "Network".  Granted
she doesn't have a floppy drive.  Her combo drive is not listed.  When
she logs in as root she can mount CDs and the icon for the combo drive
will appear both on her desktop and on the "Computer" listing in
nautilus.  On my computer, it's there in "Computer" whether or not I
have a CD mounted.  My wife complained to me that she could not play
music CDs.  I checked /etc/group on her computer, and she is in the
cdrom group:

catherine ~ # cat /etc/group | grep 'cdrom'
cdrom:x:19:amy,michael,haldaemon

My question is why is the cdrom not available to user "amy" when root
has not mounted a CD and what do I have to do to get it where she can
use it without being root?

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