>
>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.
>
>
>
What about "chmod a=rwx /dev/hda"?
Well, that didn't work either. It works on Knoppix under Xine. I
wonder what the heck is wrong here. Is that chmod not a valid solution
here? It shouldn't matter who can read, write, or excecute in my dvd
rom, should it?
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