No access to cdrom or audio with regular users

jwn7 · 09-25-2004, 05:31 PM

if i log in as root, i can play cds, and listen to music perfectly fine . but when i log in with my account, i get drive error and it doesn't work.

this is what i was instructed to do, but it didn't work

Code:

useradd -c "john" -m -g users -G cdrom,audio -s /bin/bash john

viewing /etc/groups shows my name next to cdrom and audio, so why aren't they working?

macondo · 09-25-2004, 06:37 PM

#adduser john audio

as long you are there, add 'john' to these other ones, one at a time:

sudo
dip
users
cdrom

mritch · 09-25-2004, 06:41 PM

look into your /dev directory and be sure dsp or what your sound device is called is actually group audio and also read/writeable to that group. same is for cdrom (maybe sg, if you're using ide-scsi).

sl mritch.

jwn7 · 09-25-2004, 06:45 PM

thanks guys

i just got it working

cd /dev/cdrom
chgrp cdrom (whatever it was pointing to i forget)

usermod -G cdrom,audio,floppy,video john

that did the trick

thanks again :beer: