The best bet, of course I am extremely biased, is the KDE app k3b. It takes care of adding a group (cdrecording) and adding selected users to the group and modifying cdrecord and cdrdao with that group. And all works super. k3b.sourceforge.net hope it helps On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:25, Tino Meinen wrote: > I know related questions have been asked before on this list, but I > understood there was never really a consensus. > > What is the correct/prefered method under Red Hat 9 of giving normal > users access to the cd-writer in your computer? > > i.e; so that when they want to use a burn-program like xcdroast or > gtoaster, they won't have to type in the root password. > > Thanks for replying > Tino Meinen Simon P. Bassett (717)938-2262 sbassett@xxxxxxxx