Re: CD burning without root priviligdes
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:28, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> It's ugly allright... but why does writing cd's need root
> privilegies? Isn't it an inadequacy in the kernel?
> Maybe it's better to remove
> the need for root privilegies completely (what is a multiuser system
> worth if you have to do anything that's useful with root
> privilegies?) Maybe cdrecord doesn't need to get trashed, it may be
> just enough to make it run as a client of that fancy daemon you're
> intending to code :-) in a way like now gui clients use cdrecord.
You, as a user wanting to burn CDs, don't need any root privileges. The
kernel is just fine. As is cdrecord. Your distribution (debian) or your
administrator (that may be yourself) has to configure things properly
and everything works just fine with ordinary user privileges. This may
mean, that some programs have to run setuid root. That's not radically
different from what's happening with other packages.
If you're compiling some program yourself, don't expect it to do
everything correctly out of the box. K3b, for instance, comes with its
own setup tool. That's well-intended, but doesn't work hand in hand
with debian configuration tools.
Michael
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