growisofs and sudo

Bo Rosén brosen at bredband.net
Wed Oct 6 11:46:37 UTC 2004


I'm not on my ubuntu system right now, but reading the man page for
growisofs I see this;

 If executed under sudo(8) growisofs refuses to start. This is done  for
the following reason. Naturally growisofs has to access the data set to
be recorded to DVD media, either indirectly by letting mkisofs generate
ISO9660 layout on-the-fly or directly if a pre-mastered image is to be
recorded. Being executed under sudo(8), growisofs effectively grants 
sudoers read access to any file in the file system.

Is this a problem in Ubuntu?

Cheers,
	Bo
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Bo Rosén <brosen at bredband.net>





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