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On Sunday 12 December 2004 3:33 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
I'm one of the many folks to encounter the problem of not being able to run the CD writing program K3B as a non-root user. <snip> Does anyone have a
solution for 9.1?
Try setting cdrecord (I usually do it in /etc/permissions.local) suid root (4710), owned root.cdburn, then create the group, adding yourself to the group. I also did the same to cdrdao, mkisofs, cdda2wav. Then it should work as non-root. Be aware that this will break it in a post 2.6.8 kernel, which may have some backporting done in the kernel in 9.1. If that is the case, they would need to be root.root 755.
With the suid root, why would it also be necessary to change the group, I wonder? And turning that around, if I'm in the cdburn group, why would the suid root be necessary? Given the hazards of getting clobbered by a kernel update, why not do root.root 755 in the first place? Paul