<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.6.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 05:18 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> The second ""user" is not in the cdrom group, I would suspect. Check the groups for the second user and compare with the first. $ groups <--- useful command to see which groups you are in, funnily enough (wow, a "unix" command that makes sense! *grin*) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Just FYI, this is also accessible from the Users and Groups administration control panel. Just select the user in question, press "properties" and select the "User Privileges" tab. There's a checkbox for "Access to CD-ROM drives." I tend to prefer using the commandline, but the GUI tools are getting pretty nice. Of course, either way, the changes won't actually take effect until the next time the user logs in, due to the way groups currently work. mike <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> You should be in something like these adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev lpadmin scanner $ sudo adduser username groupname will add a user to group "groupname" Of course, it might be some other problem, but this is what I would check first... </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael R Head <<A HREF="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</A>> GPG: http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/gpg.key.txt (ID 23A02B1F) </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>