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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 04:16:46 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        BrianSander <brian.sander@asu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cd-rw drive access to users question
Message-ID:  <15091.50430.625744.10002@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <79938573@toto.iv>

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BrianSander <brian.sander@asu.edu> types:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd imagine this will be an easy question but...
> 
> My goal is to allow non-root user accounts to use the SCSI cd-rw drive
> on the server machine. I followed the instructions on the FAQ page which
> allows users to mount the cd-rw drive but had a problem went I attempted
> to use it. I attempted to use cdda2wav with a non-root use account and
> received a "cannot open SCSI driver" error.
> 
> I changed the device permissions but apparently also need to change the
> permissions on the SCSI driver governing the cd-rw drive.
> 
> How would I go about doing this?

Actually, you probably want to change the permissions on the pass?
device that points to the cd-rw drive. That should be in the dmesg
output of the machine. If there's another way to find it, I'd
appreciate knowing what it is.

	<mike
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