[luau] Duplicating Music CD

W. Wayne Liauh LiauhW001 at Hawaii.rr.com
Mon Dec 16 07:57:00 PST 2002


The default permission (RH 8.0) for /dev/cdrom is 300.  Since I am the 
owner of this file, as long as I am the user, making it 777 does not 
make any difference in this case.


Ben Beeson wrote:

>Aloha,
>
>	I haven't played much with this or any other cdripper, but...  I recall that 
>default permissions on my cdrom drive have caused me trouble in the past.  
>Making the cdrom chmod 777 when combined with an appropriate set of 
>permissions in the fstab file fixed all my troubles without having to suid 
>any programs.   For my own purposes, this was a better solution than fixing 
>all the programs. Essentially the only security change I had to worry about 
>was  physical access to the cdrom drive as the software remained the same.   
>Could this or something similar work for cdparanoia?  {I don't have a cd 
>burner, or I'd try it myself. } 
>
>Mele Kalikimaka,
>
>Ben 
>  
>





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