[SOLVED] Proper way to add user-access to cdrom?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

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>Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:31 PM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases (E-mail)
>Subject: Proper way to add user-access to cdrom?
>
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>What is the proper way to enable selected users access
>to the CDROM, especially if they log in remotely.  I use
>VNC to remote login to my linux box all the time when I
>am even in the same room.
>
>I can get access to the CDROM as root user via VNC
>but I dont want to do that.
>
>I added myself as a user to the 'disk' group file, but that
>does not seem to be the trick.
>
>Any pointers?
>
>Kind regards,
>Dan
>
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ok, I figured it out.

I had to:
1) Create a new group: 'audio'
2) Add my users to this group in /etc/group
3) When I remote log into the system via VNC, open shell-window and issue: newgrp audio

Then in KDE, I can open the audio stuff (KsCD) and it runs!

Dan

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