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ZainAsad

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Registered: 2010-05-29

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(SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

Hey guys, I'm having trouble accessing my CD drive. As a regular user, it denies me the permission. As a root user, it works just fine. I don't want to go around all day as root user, because God knows what I'll mess up. Is there a way to just give a single permission to a normal user?

Last edited by ZainAsad (2010-06-04 17:21:14)

ZainAsad

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Registered: 2010-05-29

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Re: (SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

On a side note, I'm running XFCE. I did not encounter this problem in KDE.

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

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Re: (SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

Are you starting xfce with ck-launch-session?

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

How exactly do you start xfce?

Also, please use the edit function when adding information.

Last edited by schen (2010-06-04 16:34:07)

ZainAsad

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Registered: 2010-05-29

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Re: (SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

I run it with startxfce4. I'm guessing I'm doing this incorrectly? Pardon my noob-ness.

schen

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Re: (SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

Xfce requires consolekit to automount, shutdown, reboot and other things. Don't worry, I had the same problem with dwm when trying to mount my windows partition. Put ck-launch-session before startxfce4 and after exec.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#Manually

Last edited by schen (2010-06-04 16:44:00)

ZainAsad

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Registered: 2010-05-29

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Re: (SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

Many thanks! After using that command, it seems to work just fine.

schen

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Re: (SOLVED)CD Drive Permission Denied

Remember to mark as solved.