Re: Permissions required for burning
Christian Pernegger wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> What exactly are the minimum permissions required for a user to be
> able to use a CD/DVD burner?
>
> The thing is, burning works fine with a Plextor 716A on amd64-sid with
> the user in the cdrom group and no suid anywhere, but a LiteOn
> SOHC-5232K on i386-testing causes both k3b and the nautilus cd burning
> component to abort with a generic error right at the start of the
> burning progress. (The disk is not touched by this.)
Check that the permissions for the device files are the same
(probably /dev/cdrom[0-9] is not writeable by group cdrom).
> I suid-root-ed cdrdao and cdrecord as suggested by k3b, which works,
> but is obviously just a workaround.
>
> On a related note, k3bsetup does not work on any of my machines - it
> just shows an empty window with a few buttons at the bottom. I don't
> use kde ortherwise, so I guess I'm missing some packages?
This is a bug in the package,
edit /usr/share/applnk/Settings/System/k3bsetup2.desktop and remove
the "NoDisplay=true" line
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Felipe Sateler
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