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Re: [LUG] permissions and potential new user

 

On 16/08/07, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:43:47 +0100
> james kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello james,
>
> > Error trying to open /dev/sg0 exclusively (Permission denied)...
> > retrying in 1 second.
>
> It probably has no bearing for this problem but;
>
> Have you checked that whoever you're logged in as (james, I believe) is
> a member of the group "cdrom"?  Type "groups username" (without quotes)
> at a shell prompt to find out, or use whatever graphical method you
> have.
>
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May be worth making cdrecord suid root - ie: sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord

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