K3B, better: cdrecord is not able to burn cds on a scd0-device asnormal user

[Derek Broughton]

douglas_slac wrote:

> 
> Is there a conclusion to this?  That you should or should-not setuid on
> the (what was it finally, the /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap) file?  And this
> is (or isn't) supposed to be done, how is it done?

You should _not_ setuid cdrecord - any of them.  You _should_ be a member of
the group which owns the cd writer device.  In my case, I am a member of
'cdrom' (silly choice of names for a writer :-) ), as is /dev/scd0, which
all the /dev/cd* and /dev/dvd* devices link to.  However, the #$%^& thing
_also_ wants access to /dev/sg0 which keeps getting created with root
ownership!
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derek