segfault when not as root

Alain Seite allan at free.fr
Fri Nov 16 20:16:28 CET 2001


On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:55:14PM +0100, nico wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:12, you wrote:
> 
> > That's not what most people would consider "good" settings for it ;-)
> >
> > What Nico might not know is that the device needs to be writable by the
> > user / group in question.
> >
> > On linux:
> > groupadd dvd
> > chgrp dvd /dev/hdd (in your example, /dev/sr0 in my case)
> > chmod 664 /dev/hdd (to make the device also readable by anyone)
> >
> > Then make sure that your user and any other appropriate users are in the
> > dvd group.
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Unfortunately, that still doesn't work. I guess it can be related to a recent 

I have noticed that you also have to reboot in order to make changes in
/etc/group operational (don't know if it's Debian specific, or if there's
another way ..)

> patch applied to my kernel (from grsecurity). I'm gonna check it out.
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> nico
> 
> 

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