On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, michael hast wrote:
> > Check the permissions for your DVD drive:
> >
> > ls -l /dev/hda
> >
> > You may find that the device offers read access only if you are a
> > member of a particular group (e.g. cdrom).
> >
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hda
The root user and members of the "disk" group have rw access, everybody else
has bupkis. Four solutions:
1. Add yourself to the "disk" group:
gpasswd -A you disk
Log out, log in for this to take effect.
2. Change that file to a group you _are_ in:
"groups" to list them, then "chown root.chosen_group /dev/hda".
Probably will break some things.
3. Make the device world-readable:
chmod o+r /dev/hda
4. Make a duplicate device:
mknod b 3 0 ~/mh-dvd
I'd choose option #1.
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