no cdrom for regular users

[neil woolford]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 14:45 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:

> > 
> > > 
> > > put your user(s) in the group cdrom  ( --> sudo nano /etc/group )
> > > 
> 
> Much easier from the command line is
> 
> sudo adduser <yourusername> cdrom
> 
> (or in more generalised form:  sudo adduser <username> <group to which you want to add the user > )


Thanks for that.  That made me look at the adduser man pages;  it isn't
just a one-trick pony.  Though I'm not sure that I'd have understood how
it could add users to groups, as the man pages are a bit cryptic (as
ever).

"Add an existing user to an existing group
       If  called  with two non-option arguments, adduser will add an
existing user to an existing group."

The old non-option arguments trick eh...

Neil
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