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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord, permissions problem
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:28:57
Message-Id: 483ad733.UCCqdNyqNgtVP0gc%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord, permissions problem by forgottenwizard
1 forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 15:21 Mon 26 May , Joerg Schilling wrote:
4 > > Adrian <linuxgn2@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > (and for cdrecord)
7 > > >
8 > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root burning 273656 2008-04-11 17:31 /usr/bin/cdrecord
9 > >
10 > > Call chmod 4711 /usr/bin/cdrecord
11
12 > He is in the burning group, so it shouldn't be a problem to run
13 > cdrecord.
14
15 It does not help to be "in the burning group" and it is a security problem
16 to chgrp + chmod device nodes to allow to access them.
17
18 Cdrecord needs root permissoions for _various_ reasons and the only way to
19 remove this would be to use Linux-2.6.26 or newer _after_ someone helped me to
20 tell cdrecord how to deal with the new caps....
21
22 Jörg
23
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25 EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
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27 schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
28 URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
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