On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:28, Frank Van Damme wrote: > It's ugly allright... but why does writing cd's need root > privilegies? Isn't it an inadequacy in the kernel?
> Maybe it's better to remove > the need for root privilegies completely (what is a multiuser system > worth if you have to do anything that's useful with root > privilegies?) Maybe cdrecord doesn't need to get trashed, it may be > just enough to make it run as a client of that fancy daemon you're > intending to code :-) in a way like now gui clients use cdrecord. You, as a user wanting to burn CDs, don't need any root privileges. The kernel is just fine. As is cdrecord. Your distribution (debian) or your administrator (that may be yourself) has to configure things properly and everything works just fine with ordinary user privileges. This may mean, that some programs have to run setuid root. That's not radically different from what's happening with other packages. If you're compiling some program yourself, don't expect it to do everything correctly out of the box. K3b, for instance, comes with its own setup tool. That's well-intended, but doesn't work hand in hand with debian configuration tools. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, "Gattaca"
