This is a common problem. You need to ensure that your user, the cdwriter, and all the cd applications have the same group permissions.
1/Create a group called 'cdwriter' using Userdrake and put any users who are to burn CD's in that group. (It may already exist) 2/ You then need to give cdwriter group privileges for the following applications (all in /usr/bin) If any of these apps are missing install them from RPM. cdrecord cdda2wav cdparanoia mkisofs readcd You can do this using konqueror. Just open Kmenu>Application>FileTools>FileManager(SuperUserMode) Find the files you want to change the permissions of, right click, select 'Permissions' and set the group name to be cdwriter 3/ Put the CD-RW in the cdwriter group by editing the permissions of /dev/scd0 You can test your cd burner by opening a user terminal and typing cdrecord --scanbus If it finds your CD writer then cd burning should work. HTH derek On Saturday 23 March 2002 19:49, Curt wrote: > I've recently done a clean install of 8.1 and installed eroaster, however > attempts to burn a cd of 8.2 have failed. > I chose the iso tab, browsed to the file, hit the info button to get the > file info, then chose the burn cd button - results below > > As user I got: > /bin/bash/cdrecord: Permission denied > At one point I found the GUI app to change permissions but can't seem to > find it again - though it seems if permissions *were* changed I'd probably > get the output below. > > As root, the output from ECLiPt Roaster is: > > scidev: '0.0.0' > scsibus:0 target:0 lun:o > > My cd burner is an external Plextor 12/4/32 (SCSI) > using CDR media. > What do I need to change to get the prog to work? > I am very new to Linux and not familiar with CLI > > Any hints or links to help solve this problem would be greatly appreciated > (the link mentioned in the 8.2 readme for cdrecord gives me the 404 error) > > Curt
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