[paranoia] Newbie question

[Dale E. Martin]

Mihir Wagle <wagle at cems.umn.edu> writes:

> I just installed cdparanois. Only root can run it, however. If I try
> running it as another user, here's what comes up.
> 
> -- /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible.  By default,
> cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
> Consider using -s to force a more complete autosense
> of the machine.
> 
> More information about /dev/cdrom:
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
> 	Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
> 		/dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
> 	Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
> 		No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0
> 
> My entire system is SCSI, RH 6.0... with an Adaptec 2940 U2W controller.
> 
> DO I have to setuid on my cdrom drive or something? its in 666 mode
> right now.
> Thanks in advance.

All you should have to do is 666 your cdrom - since you say it is set that
way, it's a little strange that it's not working.  Are you sure you've got
the right device?

One other thing, 666 mode is only one option.  Another option is to set the 
device to 660 and chgrp it into the audio group, and then add yourself to
the audio group.  This is a tiny bit more secure than 666...  I don't
generally worry too much about security on read only devices anyways ;-)

Later,
        Dale

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