cdrom permissions

[thesource]

anybody got a good tutorial on how to configure mount permissions for groups so they can access the CDROM - I cant seem to play music cds while im a user? I heard of a audio group, but is this so?

thanks :)

[jtang613]

I believe the 'wheel' group is the one you're looking for.

My users are member of both the 'users', 'floppy', 'disk' and 'wheel' groups. Can mount anything.

[lvanek]

jtang613 -

My thanks. Of the many hacks & other advice Ive read this is the solution that worked for me. I had issue after replacing failed cdrom drive with new CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. Adding my users to the disk group & user group fixed it. No need to chmod anything in /dev/dev or fiddle with permissions in /etc/security/console.perms. Upon reboot, I was in business playing cdrom music as an oridinary user.

[crypt076]

simplist thing would have been to ensure 'user' or 'users' was added in the mount options of fstab for the cdrom.