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Re: cdrecord -scanbus problem



On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:41:00PM +0200, lists.cdwrite@duinheks.nl wrote:
> This is strange. I certainly ran it as root, like I always do.
> It is installed as: -rwsr-xr-x 1 bin bin
> Now, when I changed the owner to root:root, it ran.
> I changed the owner back to bin:bin and it still runs...
> I'm confused now!

It probably lost its setuid bit during the chowns, which fixed the issue.
Since having it installed setuid bin is clearly not useful, I'm rather
confused why it was done that way in the first place.


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