On Sunday 05 January 2003 13:22, you wrote:
> I'm using Mandrake 9.0, and trying to play some music CD's. However, in
> Kaboodle, the CDROM's show up with padlocks on them, and I can't access
> them (unless I am logged in as root). I tried to change the ownership
> using chown, but I get a message
>
> chown: changing ownership of `cdrom': Operation not permitted
>
> It seems odd that on a distro targeted for the desktop, a user can't
> access the CDROM by default... What's the reason for this, and how can I
> play these CD's? Thanks!
>
> Doug
You do need root priviledges to change the permissions on /dev files.
Smitty
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