Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:21:59
Message-Id: 20061109101645.4caedda9@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom by Mrugesh Karnik
1 On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:31:25 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
2
3 > > This limit only applies to the root user, so the question becomes
4 > > "why is K3b running growisofs as root?". Is growisofs suid?
5 >
6 > ls -l $(which growisofs)
7 > -rws--x--- 1 root burning 71888 2006-10-19 11:33 /usr/bin/growisofs
8 >
9 >
10 > Apparently, it is. I suppose it is to do with avoiding issues with
11 > users being in the proper group for burning the disks.
12
13 Does the problem go away if you chmod 750 /usr/bin/growisofs?
14
15
16 --
17 Neil Bothwick
18
19 Windows isn't a virus -- viruses do something!

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>