On Monday 16 December 2002 15.40, Damon Register wrote:
I think a lot of my problems are permission related but I can't solve them without a little help. With a little detective work I was able to find from fstab and Konqueror file manager all the relationships between CD drives and names. From Konqueror I find that /cdrom is a link to /media/cdrom. fstab shows me that /media/cdrom is a mount point for /dev/cdrom and Konqueror shows me that /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/sr0. Great, now I have the chain but what do I do with this in order to get grip to work for a normal (not root) user? What permissions must be set?
Your regular user needs read and write permissions on sr0 and sg0, since most scsi tools use the SCSI generic interface (sg*) to work.
Why does the IDE DVD drive work with no adjustments while the SCSI CD-RW not work for a normal user but does work for root.
Bugs in SuSE's installer that messes up the permissions, perhaps? The ide-scsi setup seems to be the number 1 cause of problems lately. In future kernels we won't need it, thank $DEITY
[rant on] The really frustrating thing is that though I believe some of these problems to be simple ones, I get zero response.
I've answered questions like yours, about cd ripping, audio cd io slave in kde and cd burning about 2^15678 times. How many times do you think one can fruitfully answer the same question before breaking down into a sobbing wreck.
get rid of a link. This is really stupid. How can a beginner be expected to guess that rm is the way to get rid of a link?
A link is a file. You use rm to remove a file. The deductive leap isn't that large