Re: FC5 audio disk access as root.

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On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:18 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On my FC5 machine audio disks when inserted in the drive appear on
> > desktop. As an ordinary user they are played by the appropriate
> > application. As root, however, even thought the icon appears on the
> > desktop neither totem not gnome-CD can find the CD.
> 
> Why are you trying to play audio CDs as root, for goodness sake?
I have no actual passion to play CD-s as root, but it has always worked
before. /dev/hdc which is attached to the cdrom has permissions:
brw-rw---- root disk
So if anything it should only be accessible as root. So what sense does
that make?
> 
> > Since these CD-s no longer are mounted in the usual way I don't know
> > where to look for the problem. Does someone have nay ideas?
> 
> Sounds like a feature, not a bug to me...
> 
> But what are the permissions on the appropriate devices in /dev?
> 
> James.
> 

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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