Re: [Kreatecd-user] Stuck on calculating ISO 9660 size

[Derek J. <dje...@op...>]

Funny.. I tried it again today, and it works as a normal user with the user 
in the same group as cdrecord and mkisofs. No need for suid or guid.

Excellent. Thanks for the advice.
Derek

On Saturday 01 December 2001 04:25, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2001 11:17 am, you wrote:
> > Ah..That was it thanks.
> >
> >
> > I had mkisofs, but I was running kreatecd as a user.
> > It only seems to work when I run it as root.
> > I tried putting my user in the same group as mkisofs, and cdrecord, no
> > good. Then I tried making them both suid still no good.
> > But running kreatecd as root works fine.
> >
> > Derek
>
> The fact that you have to run the program as root would seem to indicate
> that the permissions for the cdburner are to restrictive. I run Kreatecd as
> a normal user with no problem. You should pay attention to symbolic links
> i.e. /dev/cdwriter--> scd0. The link may have user permissions, while the
> device it points to does not. The more restrictive permission will prevail.
> I know this from personal experience.
>
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