On Thursday 09 November 2006 15:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:30:36 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > Yes, it works as root. I was just investigating ways to set that > > only for growisofs. One way is to set it in /etc/profile, but > > that'll affect all processes. I'll let you know when I find the > > solution. One solution I can think of is to run ulimit followed by > > growisofs in a subshell.. but the issue is with being root. I'll > > let you know. > > This limit only applies to the root user, so the question becomes > "why is K3b running growisofs as root?". Is growisofs suid?
ls -l $(which growisofs) -rws--x--- 1 root burning 71888 2006-10-19 11:33 /usr/bin/growisofs Apparently, it is. I suppose it is to do with avoiding issues with users being in the proper group for burning the disks. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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