On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:26:20PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > On 12 Apr 2001 10:05:40 +1000 > Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote: > > > xcdroast from unstable might fix this(?), but I can't even get it to > > run. (it warns that certain executables aren't setgid, even when run > > as root, and that cdrecord is either too old or too new). > > xcdroast on unstable seems to be severly broken these days. It > requires setgid bits to be set, but gtk libs seem to refuse working > for security reasons. Also all external helper programs changed > version, hindering xcdroast to even start. I fixed it for me using > the command line tools :) thats because any X program that requires root privileges is broken by design. the GUI part should run unprivileged and use a small non-GUI backend to perform the privileged stuff. getting the root password via a ssh-askpass style system, or in a cdrecording setup just using a setuid cdrecord or similar. running GUI code as root is retarded. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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