Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

[Hendrik Sattler <sattler2000@gmx.de>]

Wim De Smet wrote:
> normal user access to recording devices has been broken many times in
> the past by changes in the kernel API. It often doesn't work reliably
> and therefore it's safer to run K3B as root. If you're in a multi-user
> environment that's not an option, but if you're the administrator and
> you know what you're doing I wouldn't see why not.

Please seperate cdrecord and K3B! There is absolutely, really, really NO
reason to run K3B as root. To run cdrecord suid-root is another thing.
And an administrator should know better than running K3B as root, anyway.

HS