howto allow user to do "cdrecord -scanbus"

McVeigh

I'm trying to use cdbakeoven and always run into problems with

TheWart · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 4:22 am Post subject:

K, one thing you need to do is

#usermod -G wheel,users,cdrw USERNAME

That will get them in the cdrw group. IIRC, that is all you have to do to get the right permissions, though some burning programs require you be root. I used GToaster, and it worked fine

McVeigh · Posted: Tue May 14, 2002 2:38 am Post subject:

did that that got me further

here is the output now:

Starting create ISO process!
98.87% done, estimate finish Mon May 13 07:30:34 2002
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 353
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 62a4
41984 extents written (82 Mb)
ISO image created successfully!
Checking recording device!
scsidev: '02,00,00'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.23
cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg1'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
Cdrecord 1.11a19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Not a valid device!
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