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fsavigny
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Joined: 08 Sep 2012
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 Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:27 pm Post subject: Which permissions on the drive does cdparaoia need??? |
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I keep getting errors like this when trying to use cdparanoia:
| Code: | Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI/MMC interface
Could not access device /dev/sr0 to test for SG_IO support: Permission denied
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When I try to rip things with cdparanoia as root, it works flawlessly, so it MUST be a permission thing, as the error message indicates.
But when I look at the permissions:
| Code: | > ls -l /dev/sr0
br--r--r-- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Apr 25 20:57 /dev/sr0
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I absolutely fail to see how root has any other permissions than members of the cdrom group (which every normal user on my computer is).
I would definitely like to run cdparanoia as a normal user. Does anybody have an idea which permissions it needs? Apart from reading permissions, that is?
Thank you so much for any help - I'm afraid I'm somehow stuck in a dead end.
Best regards,
Florian |
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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the superuser (root) tends to be able to ignore lack of write permissions...
chmod +w for the group that needs it... then again udev/consolekit does wonders on a Gnome system...
It does seem weird why it needs write permissions... but actually it's because these write permissions are used to send the special ripping commands to the drive directly... Normally you don't want to send special commands to the cdrom drive, though in this case it's benign to read CDDA.
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