Re: CD burning without root priviligdes

[Frederik Dannemare <frederik@dannemare.dk>]

Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is there any KDE gui tool to burn CDs, that can work without root 
> priviledges?
>
> I need it for linux terminal application server. Users should be able to 
> write CDs without knowing root password!
> I may make cdrecord setuid, but I don't want any gui running as root!
>
> cdbakeoven can be started as normal user, but many operations seem not to 
> work (e.g. access to previous session).
>
> k3b asks for root password on startup.
>
> The only tool that works is gcombust, but it's interface is ugly.

try adding the user(s) to the group (in /etc/group) that owns the device 
(e.g. (/dev/hdc), and re-login the user(s) for changes to take effect.