[paranoia] Newbie question

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Mon Aug 16 17:53:47 PDT 1999



> Hi!
> 
> I just installed cdparanois. Only root can run it, however. If I try
> running it as another user, here's what comes up.
[...]
> DO I have to setuid on my cdrom drive or something? its in 666 mode
> right now.

Cdparanoia does not actually use the CDROM device; it just uses this as a 
starting point for searching out the appropriate generic SCSI device.  Chances 
are, your appripriate /dev/sg* devices aren't read/writeable by users.

Monty

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