Hi Tamas, On Tuesday 25 April 2006 03:13, Tamas K Papp wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:45:53PM -0400, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > > I'd suggest a cd burning group, with appropriate rights. > > Greg, Mike and Joseph, > > Thank you for your help. The user was in the cdrom group, but > cdrecord was not setuid root. Greg's suggestion solved the problem. > > Is there no way for a user to burn cd's without something running as > root (eg only by appropriate permissions on the device, but no setuid > bit on cdrecord)? The Linux kernel 2.6 prevents some ATA command if the user is not Root because some commands could damage the hardware. There was a long discussion about this several month ago, see for instance http://lwn.net/Articles/98379/ Don't know if they changes that in the meantime. Frank -- ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
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