Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:01:46 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Bug#274860: Acknowledgement (kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctls only work as root) |
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On Mon, Oct 04 2004, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > found it. > > it's a new piece of kernel code verify_command in > drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c, which checks for the capability > CAP_SYS_RAWIO. > > ah, dammit. > > for k3b to work, you'd have to install it setuid root, call > getcap(), remove all but the necessary capabilities (i.e. don't > remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO), do a setfsuid() and setfsgid() and do > a setcap().
it works in 2.6.9-rcX.
-- Jens Axboe
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