Re: cd-burning problems

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Andreas Goesele wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to set up everything for burning cds under Linux. The basic
> setup is working for root, but there remain a number of problems.
>
> 1.) Is it actually possible to burn cds as normal user (neither root
> and nor suid-root)?  I did create a group cdburn, changed group
> ownership and the permissions of /dev/scd* and /dev/sg* to brw-rw----
> and crw-rw---- respectively and included myself into the group
> cdburn. "cdrecord -scanbus" then shows that cdrecord run as user can
> access the devices.

sudo is your friend!

use visudo to edit the sudoers file; I did the following:


---------------------------
# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias      CDRECORD=/usr/bin/cdrecord
Cmnd_Alias      GCOMBUST=/usr/bin/gcombust
Cmnd_Alias      XCDROAST=/usr/bin/xcdroast
Cmnd_Alias      MKISOFS=/usr/bin/mkisofs

ALL     ALL = CDRECORD, GCOMBUST, XCDROAST, MKISOFS
---------------------------


then any user can use sudo to burn cd's

if you want to restrict to some users, then replace the first ALL for
the user names.


[]s,
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