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Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem



On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:24:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:32:43AM +1000, bob parker wrote:
> > I'm no expert really, and maybe there is some other permissions problem going 
> > on, but I observe that with a default Debian Woody install that cdrecord is 
> > setuid. Afaik that is because it needs to lock some memory when it starts.
> 
> I have to wonder why cdrecord, xcdroast, etc that depend on suid to
> work properly aren't set that way by default in sid.  Instead you have
> to su -m and run xcdroast as root to enable non-root configuration
> after pretty much any upgrade.  Why there isn't an option to enable
> xcdroast non-root configuration during dpkg is beyond me.

There is-- at there was the last time I updated testing.

Debconfig offers you a choice. 
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