Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:00:35 +0100 From: Holger Bauer <timewax@web.de> To: FBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: possible solution to cdbakeoven failing to detect ATAPI burners Message-ID: <3FC649D3.5010407@web.de> In-Reply-To: <200311271125.31998.chowse@charter.net> References: <200311271102.20318.chowse@charter.net> <44wu9lu3zh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200311271125.31998.chowse@charter.net>
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Charles Howse wrote: >On Thursday 27 November 2003 11:16 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >>Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> writes: >> >> >>>There has been signifigant discussion here in the past about cdbakeoven >>>not detecting ATAPI burners when run as an ordinary user. >>> >>>I had this issue, and may have a solution. >>> >>>Be sure your kernel is compiled with device atapicam. >>> >>>As root do: >>># chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/cdrecord >>>Which will allow cdrecord to run as suid root. >>> >>> >>In other words, it's still not being run as an ordinary user... >> >> > >cdbakeoven *is* being run as an ordinary user, which was the original issue, >but to detect an atapi burner, it has to do 'cdrecord -scanbus', which will >fail if not run as root. Make sense? > > > > You can simply give a normal user rw-access to /dev/cd*, /dev/xpt* and /dev/pass* and it works too. No need to set suid cdrecord. IMHO a much better solution. Holger
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