On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:39:56AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > 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
Well, i will defer to Christoph and William on this/ I think it would be nice to have a discussion involving both debian-kernel, as well as all the userland cd/dvd writing tools out there. In any case, i consider this as being RC for sarge, and it needs to be sovled before we release. Friendly, Sven Luther
