[Fwd: Permission issues with CD-ROM]

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 08:05 +0200, Darryl LeCount wrote:
> Can anyone help with problem below that I posted yesterday? Thanks!
> 
> Darryl
> 
> ---------------
> Hi all,
> 
> For the last couple of months I've been having issues with the CD-ROM
> drive not automounting, refusing to mount or eject by anyone except root
> and generally being a pain in the jacksie.
> 
> I had a recent issue with groups going missing and so I decided to
> recreate the cdrom group and put all users back in it. I also did "chgrp
> cdrom /dev/cdrom" which also didn't make a difference.

What are the permissions for the real device that /dev/cdrom points to?
On my system (edgy), I have:
tim at marvin:~$ ls -l /dev/cdrom* /dev/hdc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      3 2007-06-12 17:56 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2007-06-12 17:56 /dev/hdc


Are you a member of the cdrom group? I.e. does the command 
	id -a
list cdrom as one of the groups?
 



Tim