Re: AW: [Kreatecd-devel] RFC: Wizards in kreateCD [2]

[Alexander F. <Ale...@gm...>]

On Monday, 11. December 2000 14:16, Joseph WENNINGER wrote:
> Since I have run kreatecd only as root at the moment, I have one question:
>
> If I want to burn a cd as an ordinary user, have I to start kreatecd with
> su or some other command (eg. kdesu) or does it ask for an passowrd and
> fork a root process when burning ?
>

I use a suid-root binary of kreatecd. It drops root permissions for security 
reasons at startup, but it can regain root when needed. If you don't start 
kreatecd with suid-root you'll have to use kdesu or similar - in that case 
the whole application runs in root mode. I would prefer a suid-root 
executable that can only be executed by a special group if you need access 
restrictions to the burner at all.

Alexander
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