Re: how to burn cds as non-root user?
When I switched to 2.6.x, I had to remove the SUID bit. aftre that everything
worked fine. The package installer also asks whether or not the cdrecord
binary should be set SUID. YMMV I guess.
Robert
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 13:23, Greg Ryman wrote:
> I'm using 2.6.16 and I use setuid to burn cd's... I have no cd burning
> group setup...
>
> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 06:53, Robert Goley wrote:
> > With linux kernels 2.6.10 or higher you can not use SUID root permissions
> > on cdrecord. You have to add the user to the cdrom group and remove SUID
> > permissions to burn cds. I am currently using a 2.6.14 kernel.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > On Monday 24 April 2006 21:13, 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)?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tamas
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