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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:08:00
Message-Id: 517ab460.Yzkhf3kbpO5Sc0RC%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root by Daniel Pielmeier
1 Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > > without making them suid-root.
4 > >
5 > > This works with cdrtools-3.01a14 or later. Check
6 > >
7 > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
8
9 > Thanks Jörg,
10 >
11 > I have read the release notes for alpha14 and prepared an ebuild
12 > which automatically applies the required capabilities if the filecaps
13 > USE flag is set.
14 >
15 > Is there any chance to make this a configurable option, so it is
16 > possible to disable file capabilities even if libcap is installed?
17
18 If you install cdrecord/cdda2wav/readcd suid-root instead of applying the
19 facps privileges, cdrtools will automatically behave as before. Is this
20 sufficient?
21
22 Note that if cdrtools was compiled on a machine with libcap installed, it needs
23 libcap to run.
24
25 Jörg
26
27 --
28 EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
29 js@××××××××××××.de (uni)
30 joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
31 URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>