Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: 24 Feb 2003 04:30:10 GMT

> I want to be able to burn/rip CDs as a non-root user but I get this error:
>
> cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.

An easy way around this is to create a "cdwriters" group chgrp cdwriters & chmod g+rw the appropriate enteries in /dev

Joel Mayes