On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:07:38AM -0800, James Vahn wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > There has been a poisonous ding-dong between Joerg Schilling and the > > Linux kernel developers for years - the bitching about the driver in > > the Readme file is only a wee bit of it - and the flaky CD burning > > under 2.6 seems to be a result of this. Which is dead and chewed. > > Remove the suid bit on cdrecord and run it behind sudo instead. You will > get back the functionality that Joerg has given us over the years. > > For example: sudo k3b > Very important - run visudo as root to give that user NOPASSWD on k3b: > > pigeon ALL = PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/k3b > > Test it from a command line, using "sudo -K" in between attempts. You can > append ", /usr/bin/cdrecord" to the above line to permit command line use > of "sudo cdrecord some.iso". > > I'm using a vanilla kernel-2.6.10 and have CDR_DEVICE=ATAPI:0,0,0 defined > in /etc/default/cdrecord. The K3B icon has been modified to use "sudo k3b" > under the icon properties>application>command. I thought this was only the case with kernels from 2.6.[78] on? I've deliberately stayed with 2.6.6 in order to avoid it. I'll give it a shot next time I have a CD to burn, but AFAICT it's a solution to a different problem. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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