[wplug] Audio CD autorun problem, RH 7.3

[TC Linux]

aha....I see when logged in as the user 'craig' I see this....


[craig at linux craig]$ ls -la /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Mar 14 21:56 /dev/cdrom -> 
/dev/scd0

so sudoers probably does set this but I'm not instructing sudoers to set 
this right I suppose....

back to the man page for sudoers, boy that is a legalese-sounding  text 
though   :-)


John Harrold wrote:

>Sometime in March TC Linux assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>| Thanks for the reply Frank.....nice choice of music btw....
>| 
>| It seems related to groups then and who is allowed to use what, but as 
>| far groups, 'wheel', and 'sudoers' I have no idea what you're talking 
>| about there...LOL.....I'll look for a file called 'sudoers' and the sudo 
>| command in the mean time
>
>i think this has something to do with permissions. when i login to my
>computer, the permission for things in /dev like /dev/hdc (my cdrom device)
>and /dev/dsp are changed to my user and some other group. so for example:
>
>$ ls /dev/hdc
>brw-------   1 harrold  disk      22,   0 Apr 11  2002 hdc
>
>now i'm not sure what process does this. i'm using kdm as my graphical
>login manager and i'm using kde as my desktop environment. does anyone else
>know what changes the permissions on the devices?
>
>sudo is a nifty program that lets you easily execute programs as another
>user, like root. so if you wanted to edit a file in /etc you wouldn't have
>to login as root, you would just have to do something like:
>
>sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.con
>
>and then you would be editing the file as root. this assumes you've got
>sudo setup properly. my naive answer would be something to do with that
>wheel on the mouse, but i know that's not it. a little googling and you
>have this:
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=39A6D6E2.724E6D6C%40trailing-edge.com&output=gplain
>
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