From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 06:34:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spectre.honk.org (honk.org [206.191.48.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01787 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from sw47 ([207.219.2.173]) by spectre.honk.org (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01890 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:22:53 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980911093348.0090f490@honk.org> X-Sender: mpoulin@honk.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:33:48 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Martin Poulin Subject: Re: CDPlayer only runs as root? In-Reply-To: <19980908222103.3577.qmail@A470.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.3.32.19980908084516.0090b470@honk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:21 PM 9/8/98 -0400, you 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 > should help ye > > Actually, you can't mount audio CD's. (what filesystem would you use?). A search of the archives told me that before I posted the original problem. The problem isn't with the device not working (it works if I am root), it is with permissions. Editing /etc/group solved the problem. M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message