Re: changing permissions for devices

["David E. Fox" <dfox belvdere vip best com>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Konrad wrote:

> I wanted to find out how I can let users have access to devices. For
> example, I have a scsi tape and CD-RW which both work great when I am root.
> But now I would like to give permission to a certain group of users to also
> have access to these devices. How do I do this?

Easiest thing - add a group (addgroup) and change the group ownership of the
/dev entries that are relevant to that group, and set the group 
read-write-execute permissions.

> Konrad :)

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