Re: Struggling with Audio CD access rights in SuSE 8.2

I'm running SuSE 8.2 and KDE 3.1.2 - I find (some) changes in KDE don't seem 
to take effect unless I kill KDE and rerun it - apart from that I do not have 
any problems. 


On Sunday 13 July 2003 12:03 pm, Chris Maaskant wrote:
> Jan Elders wrote:
> > Hello,
> > There seems to be something wrong in my SuSE 8.2 system-configuration.
> >
> > It is not possible to use KsCD and KMix as a user unless I have given as
> > 'root'  the commands  :
> > chmod a+r /dev/cdrom
> > chmod a=+rw /dev/mixer
> > After every boot, both /dev/cdrom and /dev/mixer only have rw permission
> > for 'root'.
> >
> > My user administration says that I belong to the following groups :
> >     jrm   Jan Elders  500  users,disk,uucp,dialout,audio,cdrom,video
> > As far as I have understood, this should do the job, but it doesn't !
> >
> > What puzzles me even more is that I have to give both commands everytime
> > again after having booted. Shouldn't the chmod remain effective, also
> > after boot ? Moreover, I'm also confused by the fact that reading a
> > data-CD is no problem at all.
> >
> > With my SuSE 7.3 I did not have this phenomenon, so I wonder :
> > 1. did I do something wrong in the installation ?
> > 2. or has something been changed with SuSE 8.2 that I have overlooked ?
> >
> > Can anybody please shed some light on this ?
>
> I've done some searching and i found that a lot of people having
> problems with the permission changes they made being gone after a reboot
> are people using lilo.
>
> So are you using lilo?
>
> If so try to run lilo as root after you have changed the permissions and
> see if they stay after a reboot.
>
> Btw, i'm running SuSE 8.2 also and i don't have any of the problems you
> have, exept for the win4lin kernel i have everything is pretty much
> default.
>
> Groetjes,
>
> Chris Maaskant.