Thanks for your suggestion Pete and Jeff :)
Indeed adding the user to the "disks" group allows him to do the mke2fs and mkudffs commands on the DVD drive. Thanks! Melinda :D On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: ::<quote who="Peter Hardy"> :: ::> The user probably doesn't have permission to write to the /dev/cdrom1 ::> device. I usually make my cdrom and burner world-writable, which isn't ::> a good idea on a multi-user system. :: ::On Debian, and hopefully Red Hat [1], there's a disk group that you can add ::users to for stuff like this. Should let you mkfs, too. :: ::- Jeff :: ::[1] Red Hat does things a bit differently, reowning things and giving users ::permissions if they log in on a console or local X server, etc. Debian just ::has the groups. :: ::-- :: "The Irish were next, being the only people who could credibly be :: accused of lowering the tone of a society of convicts." - Guy Rundle ::-- ::SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ ::More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug :: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
