Re: Packages not making it into testing
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> > Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think it's terrible to have any user
> > able to burn or screw up a burn... why can't they use sudo or su?
>
> Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway?
> We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound
> cards etc through groups, so cd burning is another good example.
Isn't the xcdroast/cdrecord suid/sgid stuff about grabbing realtime
scheduling priority? You can't control this via group ownership.
Capabilities on the other hand might help...
Regards,
Daniel.
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