I am not able to use cdparanoia as user.

I have no problem reading cdroms, playing audio CDs, or using xcdroast

Running cdparanoia as root is fine with

cdparanoia -vd /dev/sr0

but as user I get


Checking /dev/sr0 for cdrom...
Testing /dev/sr0 for cooked ioctl() interface
/dev/sr0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
Testing /dev/sr0 for SCSI interface
generic device: /dev/sg0
ioctl device: /dev/sr0
Could not open generic SCSI device /dev/sg0: Permission denied

/dev/sg0 is crw--r--- root disk and the user is a member of the rdisk group.

Can anyone help?


Thanks

I think it's because your user account isn't in the right groups. To burn CDs you have to be in the cdrom group by default IIRC. The disk group is only for mounting CDs and the like I think.

As I wrote my user can burn CDs but cannot access the CD with cdparanoia.

I do not have a cdrom group at all

It's a permission problem anyway. Though I don't know if you can just adjust permissions on your /dev files without breaking or making things insecure

I have found that it will work if I change /dev/sg0 to rw-rw--- but I am a little uneasy about that.

Yes that'll give your user read and write permissions on the device. It solves the problem but like I said I don't know if it's ok to do

You do mean the user is a member of the disk group not the rdisk group right? Is this just a typo?

disk
no typo

Oh I just saw the error.
It should read

/dev/sg0 is crw--r--- root disk and the user is a member of the disk group.