[wplug] Audio CD autorun problem, RH 7.3

[TC Linux]

Thanks for the reply Robert....

I looked in this file and the cdrom had a default group of disk, so I 
tried replacing it with users and no luck there.

BTW...thanks to all for your suggestions....I'll nail this thing sooner 
or later!

:-)


Coutch, Robert wrote:

>You might want to take a look into /etc/security/console.perms
>The settings in here caused me problems after adding new CD-ROM drives, zip
>drives, etc.
>
>-Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:38 AM
>To: coutchre at tvratings.com
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Audio CD autorun problem, RH 7.3
>
>
>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&o
>utput=gplain
>
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