k3b permissions error

[Dotan Cohen]

On 07/12/06, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I just tried to use k3b to recored a cdrom on Edgy and was met with a
> permissions error for cdrecord.   The fix suggested in k3bsetup (using a
> burning group) didn't work.
>
> What are the correct permissions and for which files.  Is this an installation
> error?  (I never touched it until today.)
>
> Running kdesu k3b worked fine.
>
> Paul

Paul, as much as I'm going to get flamed for this, I always run k3b as
root. It's the only 100% sure way to avoid those permissions problems,
and the discs are readable by regular users (they don't support unix
file permissions).

Dotan Cohen

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