burning CD-R's

[Erik Bågfors]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:04:36 -0500, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
> Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 
> >>I haven't tried burning a CD with Nautilus, but you should not try to
> >>mount the CD-R (you cannot because there is no file type before you do
> >>the burning).  I have used K3b and graveman (both of which are nice),
> >>but I keep going back to the command line when burning .iso files (which
> >>works for me every time):
> >>
> >>sudo cdrecord -pad -v -eject -driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom  <filename.iso>
> >>
> >>Or, in script form:
> >>
> >>$cat ~/bin/makecd.sh
> >>
> >>#!/bin/bash
> >>sudo cdrecord -pad -v -eject -driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom $1
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Why are you running as root?
> >
> >
> 
> By default, only root has permission to write to the CD drive, but you
> can override this by making cdrecord SUID=root

ls -Ll /dev/cdrom
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom      3,   0 2004-12-04 23:07 /dev/cdrom

By default the group "cdrom" har permissions to write to the CD drive.
 Put yourself in that group (should be default) and you're set.

/Erik - answers old mails...