On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:42:39PM -0600, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
> I've installed Fed3 and, logged in as a regular user, a few of the 
> CD-ROM-dependent apps say I don't have permission.  So everytime I start 
> up the machine I do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdb" (actual device according to 
> Hardware Browser) as root. 
> [...]

Don't have much experience with Fedora, but on Debian /dev/cdrom is a
symbolic link to /dev/hdc (or whatever) and /dev/hdc is owned by the cdrom
group. So by adding a user to the cdrom group you give them access to the
device.

-Steve



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