On 2004-08-22 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:30:05PM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
[...]
> > The main reason that I'm writing is that it seems
> > version 2.6.8 of the kernel has broken cdrecord.
[...]
> Consensus on this seems to be that the kernel will not be fixed, that the old
> way the userland tools used to speak to the burners involve security holes,
> and thus the userland tools (cdrecord and co) need to be fixed.
From reading lkml I fail to see a consensus on that yet. Both
solutions are in still in consideration: Either requiring root
privileges[1] for CD-writing instead of only write permissions on the
device or enhancing the kernel whitelist. (Making the whitelist
dependant on the the type of device will be probably required.)
cu and- still thinking it was a less than brilliant idea to make
this kind of change in between the last -rc and the final
release -reas
[1] CAP_SYS_RAWIO
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