Can play DVDs only as root
 

I can play DVDs on my laptop with Xine, but only if I run Xine as root (I usually start it with "kdesu xine" and provide my root password).

Is there a way for me to do so without the "kdesu" and play DVDs on my laptop as a non-root user?

I'm running Slackware current (from an ISO made on January 8th), using kernel 2.6.23.12, KDE 3.5.7, nothing too crazy aside from that.

Any suggestions?

The first thing to do is find out what user cannot use. You could check out the ownership and permissions for xine and your DVD device. For xine:

which xine

Then wherever xine is located:

ls -l /pathname/xine

Look in /etc/fstab and find out what device your DVD is located on and then:

ls -l /dev/dvd1 (or whatever)

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Steve Stites

Hi,

Make sure you have the user(s) in the proper groups;

chmod 666 /dev/dvd
chmod 666 /dev/cdrom

I added myself to the video group and that did it. Thanks.

Note that this is only a temporary solution, it would reset after reboot.

This also means that the only one who can access those files is Satan :)

stays as 666 here

The permissions OF DOOOOOOOOOOOM

the permissions to allow dvd burning under k3b too :D

Aha.... I hadn't thought of that. Good point.