growisofs and sudo

[Bo Rosén]

ons 2004-10-06 klockan 13.46 skrev Bo Rosén:

Ugh, please just ignore this. I'll be busy looking for my brain, seem to
have misplaced it somewhere.

Cheers,
	Bo


> 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
> -- 
> Bo Rosén <brosen at bredband.net>
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