Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:03:29 +0300 | From | Petri Kaukasoina <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM |
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:41:33PM +0200, Marc Ballarin wrote: > An unpatched cdrecord does not use root privileges to access devices. It > increases its priority, locks memory and drops privileges before doing > anything else. According to its author, cdrecord is designed for this mode > of operation. I don't know if the same is true for growisofs and other > tools. > suid has no effect on the issue at hand (provided cdrecord has not > been modified), it only serves to increase burning reliability.
I guess you are talking about some alpha version. The latest released unpatched stable version cdrecord 2.00.3 burns ok as suid-root even with this kind of device access rights:
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