Mike Frysinger schrieb: > along these lines, why is cdrtools set*id ? if we have a "cdrom" group, and > we assign our cdroms/dvdroms to that group, then we already have access > control in place and can skip the set*id. > -mike >From the manpage, "In order to be able to use the SCSI transport subsystem of the OS, run at highest priority and lock itself into core cdrecord either needs to be run as root, needs to be installed suid root or must be called via RBACs pfexec mechanism."
I guess with the advent of burnfree technology, the priority and locking into memory have become less important. The cdrom group will give access to /dev/sr* but not the associated /dev/sg* Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
