Re: allowing root X apps
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:24:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:24:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > If root has to run the GUI file a bug against it.
Yep!
> Well, cdroast itself has to run as root or with root privs... just giving
> the user access to the device isn't enough as cdroast complains about
> system calls it can't use.
I never bothered to use this app but I understand this is nice GUI
wrapper for cdrecord as I see it. cdrecord needs to be root unless you
know something more than I bothered to learn.
All cdroast has to be started by equivalent of
$ su -c "cdrecord ..."
from user prevs.
SOURCE code seems to call without "su" or "sudo". YEP it is a bug.
I like this to be patched to use sudo. Maybe spawn xterm or xconsole?
to enable password prompt. :-)
> OTOH, xcdroast will STOP you if you try to run it as root (it has a wrapper
> to get around it).
????
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