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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom permissions and gxine
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:41:33
Message-Id: 1126600585.28234.38.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom permissions and gxine by Willie Wong
1 On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 01:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
2 > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:19:47PM -0700, Grant wrote:
3 > > Here are my /dev/cdrom permissions:
4 > >
5 > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Sep 12 06:08 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
6 > >
7 >
8 > that's a symlink... the permissions on it doesn't reflect that of the
9 > actual device.
10 >
11 > try ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
12 >
13 > > gxine executes as root, but not as a normal user. Aren't those permissions OK
14 >
15 > By execute, do you mean load and run the program, or play a movie from /dev/cdrom?
16
17 are you in the cdrom group??
18 uid=500(gentoo) gid=100(users)
19 groups=10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),32(gdm),35(games),80(cdrw),81(apache),100(users),250(portage),445(plugdev)
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