From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 19:13:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21466 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA15993; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:08:56 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:08:55 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: merlin@A470.demon.co.uk cc: Martin Poulin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDPlayer only runs as root? In-Reply-To: <19980908222103.3577.qmail@A470.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 merlin@A470.demon.co.uk wrote: > > I recently installed XCD and CDPlayer on my system. I managed to > > get them working after a few tries (setenv CDPLAYER /dev/wcd0a) > > but neither one of them will function unless I execute them as root. > > > > CDPlayer gives me an error like "/dev/wcd0a: permission denied". (sorry > > I don't know the exact wording - I'm at work now and my system is at home.) > > man mount > man fstab Not quite. `mount' and `fstab' refer to the filesystem, whereas what xcd and cdplayer requires is direct access to the device. Check the permissions on /dev/wcd0a and make sure it's readable to the users in question. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message