Re: scsi device for cdrdao
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:38:47PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Rick Pasotto (<rick@niof.net>) wrote:
>
> > I am trying to create a vcd using cdrdao. I have been happily making
> > cd's with cdrecord using dev=0,0 but when I try to use '--device
> > 0,0,0' with cdrdao it says it can't open /dev/sg0. My cd burner is
> > /dev/scd0.
>
> Maybe it is a permission problem. On most installations, cdrecord runs
> suid root. Maybe cdrdao does not. Check the permissions for cdrdao and
> those for /dev/sg*. /dev/sg* device files normally are only
> read/writable for root (and in this configuration should be usable with
> cdrecord if it is suid root). Maybe you want to change group ownership
> from root to cdrom and make them read/writable for group as well.
Yes, that was it. Thank you.
I did three things:
chown root.cdrom /dev/sg0
chown root.cdrom /usr/bin/cdrdao
chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrdao
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