Steve Miller wrote:
I'd like to NOT have to log on as root just to burn a
Does this also mean that you don't accept the dialog that says it is requesting root priveleges when you start XCDRoast while logged in as normal user?
/usr/share/doc/packages/xcdroast/README.nonroot), I but where did you get it? I would like to see that
placed my normal user name on the list of those permitted to burn CDs. Do you prefer that over just selecting the all user option?
Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. I got the same problem with grip. What I find really frustrating about this is that some are giving bum advice. There is an "unofficial FAQ" for CD ripping that instructs to set the setuid bit but this causes the same problem
The URL brilliantly explains that I need to write a "helper program". You saw that too? :-(
(2) What manual? I am having doubts about even that. I am beginning to think that the community of Linux experts is terribly lacking in an understanding of the word "prerequisite". Those writing instructions don't understand that we aren't all experts and they too often forget to include prerequisites that must first be satisfied before their instructions will work.
using Linux takes patience, but this is a little ridiculous. (There is a whole section in the I am in complete agreement with you on this one. Less experienced users like me are told to RTFM so I RTFM and get bad or incomplete information.
Most likely when you get an answer to your problem, I will have an answer to my grip problem because I believe they are both issues with permissions. I don't have SuSE 7.1 any more so I can't try XCDRoast on that but I know it works ok as-is on my SuSE 8.0 with no modifications for root or normal user. Damon Register