On Saturday 10 May 2003 05:43 am, José Luis Tallón wrote: > It needs to be able to run cdrecord / mkisofs / growisofs / ... and access > the devices with the unprivileged user it runs as. > Your approach would help if the upstream did not check the permissions to > ensure they are SUID root, mode 4750. > > I don't think it would be polite nor effective to include an enormous patch > in the first released version of the package, just to work this around.
Your conservatism is appreciated, but this behavior is really sub-optimal. Removing this check -should- be a fairly trivial patch, and upstream should be prodded accordingly. Hopefully this can be fixed properly in some later version. Good luck! - Keegan
