[SOLVED] how to allow a normal user to access a tape drive in RHEL 5?

kingston · 12-01-2009, 06:33 AM

hi all
i am using RHEL 5 and i want to let my users to access the IBM 3592 tape drive to read and write. I can do it with local superuser privileges. I can change the particular drive's permission to 664 to allow all the users to read the tape ( But this is also vanished when i rebooted the workstation) and it does not allow me to give 666 permission.

regards

Kingston

bret381 · 12-01-2009, 07:12 AM

Never used a tape drive, but might try changing owner to one of your users and see if someone other than root owns it, it will allow you to change the permissions.

chrism01 · 12-01-2009, 05:11 PM

How about using sudo?