[ale] cdrom access

Jim Popovitch jimpop at rocketship.com
Wed Jul 7 21:18:01 EDT 1999


In /etc/fstab make sure that the option "user" is present on the /dev/cdrom
line.  Something like this:

/dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom   iso9660 defaults,user,ro  0 0

or this

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto  user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0


----- Original Message -----
 From: Gary S. Mackay <Gary at edisoninfo.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 8:00 PM
Subject: [ale] cdrom access


> I finally have sound, network, etc., etc. all working just fine. My
problem
> now is that when I login as anyone other than root, I cannot run the 'cd
> player' in KDE to play music. It gives an error saying to make sure I have
> access permissions to /dev/cdrom, which I do. I think. It all works fine
as
> long as I'm logged in as root. Any ideas?
>
> - Gary
>
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