now I did it ..

[Mike Medai]

neil at jenandneil.com wrote:

>do you recall playing with these files' permissions before?
>  
>

Nope .. not to my knowledge.  But then again, I am groping in the dark 
with all this.  <G>

>Anyway, this ought to correct matters... as root:
># chown root /dev/sr0
># chmod 664 /dev/sr0
># chmod 664 /dev/scd0
># ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
># adduser mikem disk
>
>  
>
The adduser command does not work.  I get this as a result .. even if I 
go back all the way to the root directory:

bash: adduser: command not found

Looking through my book I see a useradd command, but somehow this 
doesn't quite seem to be what I think you are trying to accomplish since 
the syntax is different .. useradd [options] [user].  So, I didn't 
bother trying any of that.

Pulling up "whereis adduser -b" gives a result of:

adduser: /usr/share/man/man8/adduser.8.gz

And looking at this shows that apparently mikem (thats me <G>) owns it 
as part of user group.  And again I have a feeling that this had 
absolutely nothing to do with my cd problem .. but it was neat to chase.

>That way, anyone in the disk group can write to the CD drive and anyone can 
>read it.  These commands ought to at least make things "normal" again and if 
>it still doesn't work, we can at least start there.
>
>  
>
>>>groups
>>>      
>>>
>>For this command I get:
>>users uucp dialout audio video ftp
>>    
>>
>Now you should see disk in here too.
>
>See if the audiocd:/ extension works now?  Also, I would go back into the 
>Control Center, go to the Sound/Multimedia section, and the Audio CD applet.  
>Specifically set the CD device to /dec/scd0.  
>  
>
I did not get "disk" listed when I ran groups, probably due to previous 
balking.  Went ahead and tried Konqueror and changed the Audio CD applet 
.. to no avail.

Just for grins I logged in as a second user that I had added during 
installation .. even from that user I was not able access the CD via 
Konqueror.  I had hoped that the default setup for this second user 
might have worked and given me a clue about my problem.  Boy, I really 
botched this up good.  <sigh>


Mike