Marshall Heartley wrote:
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 07:55, H du Plooy wrote:
Ok, I tracked down the problem, sort of. I can't use cdparanoia on the cdwriter (ide-scsi) as a normal user, but it works fine as root. This is the message I get:
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hans@sigaar:~/music/ian> cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 -B -v cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
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Checking /dev/sr0 for cdrom... Testing /dev/sr0 for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/sr0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/sr0 for SCSI interface No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/sr0
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This is a issue that I would like the LINUX community to address. It deals with permissions on a ide-scsi device. (At least in SuSE 7.3 and 8.0) 1. It is a bad idea to be in "Root" for both error (rm -r *) and security reasons. It is safer to run programs as a "User". Besides many XDM/GDM/KDM login screens offer logins as a "User". Then why is it that programs like Xcdroast fail while being a "User" because the /dev/sr0 is only available to "Root". The ide-scsi device is set to be used by Root but the program Xcdroast complains about executing as "Root". However, Xcdroast refuses to come up as a "User" because the "User" doesn't have permission to use the /dev/sr0. This can be fixed by changing the permissions but why is it set that way at all. There needs to be a meeting of the minds between security and the common sense folks. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~dwash " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@arrl.net Info: http://www.austinlug.org