On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 11:54, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 17.57, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 11:30, Anders Johansson wrote:
Briefly put, check the permissions on /dev/hdc and make sure your user has enough permissions to use it
This for me involved adding myself and my wife who uses the box as part of the disk group I believe before I could play a dvd.
That's not a very good idea. All your hard disks are owned by group "disk", so now you have permissions to completely trash them. Even if your machine is only operated by trusted people you could ruin something by accident. The argument is the same as the argument against logging in as root. It's better to chmod the cdrom only.
I see the point completely. However, if I remember this correctly that on reboot or SuSEConfig running, the devices get chmoded back over to their proper settings. I believe the message I saw something like checking default device permissions. Would this not mean that he would have to chmod the cdrom back a number of times? I see the point on the chown but have not run into major problems in workstation settings with this. Yet, what you are saying makes sense and gives me something to consider. Johnathan Bailes BAE Systems ESI "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn ---