<quote who="Chris Devers">
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Gavin Henry wrote:
>
>> [...] the problem is [...] cdrecord needs to be run as root.
>
> I assume cdrecord is being invoked from a system command, right?
I know have it running fine using -T and declaring ENN{PATH} as according
to the "Security" section of the camel.
Yeah, I have:
!system (blah, blah) or die "blah, blah";
>
> Have you considered prefixing that command with `sudo`, and going into
> the sudoers file to allow the www user that privilige?
No.
>
> Of course, it would be a bit more complicated than that, as sudo will
> prompt for a password that you have to pass back to it somehow, but
> after hurdle that I suspect that it should work fine...
I could actually do that for each system command, could I use the expect
perl module for that?
>
> Alternatively, have you considered using Webmin? Webmin is a way to do
> various system administration tasks through a web browser, and there
> appears to be a cdrecord based plugin for it:
>
> <http://kgolding.co.uk/cd2iso.php>
It needs to be scripted via an independant sgi script though :-(
>
> Webmin site:
>
> <http://webmin.com/>
>
> The Book of Webmin (not pirated -- it's at the author's site):
>
> <http://www.swelltech.com/support/webminguide/>
>
> This may be an easier approach to the problem...
>
Thanks.
> --
> Chris Devers
>
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