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Bug#267338: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7: 2.6.8 broke cdrecord



On 2004-08-22 Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:30:05PM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
[...] 
> > The main reason that I'm writing is that it seems
> > version 2.6.8 of the kernel has broken cdrecord.
[...]
> Consensus on this seems to be that the kernel will not be fixed, that the old
> way the userland tools used to speak to the burners involve security holes,
> and thus the userland tools (cdrecord and co) need to be fixed.

 From reading lkml I fail to see a consensus on that yet. Both
solutions are in still in consideration: Either requiring root
privileges[1] for CD-writing instead of only write permissions on the
device or enhancing the kernel whitelist. (Making the whitelist
dependant on the the type of device will be probably required.)

   cu and- still thinking it was a less than brilliant idea to make
           this kind of change in between the last -rc and the final
           release -reas

[1] CAP_SYS_RAWIO
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