On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:32, Francois Marier wrote: > Hi Slaven, > > Are you able to sucessfully burn CDs as a normal user even if you don't > change the permissions? Or does it only work as root? > > Francois
Hi Francois, OK, I played a little bit more with new k3b, so here is what happens: k3b setup cannot change permissions. If I ignore warnings and try to burn a CD it does start the process, but shortly after reports an error (something related to the buffer size) and ejects the CD. The workaround is to change permissions using debconf and do dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord and then select running cdrecord with suid option. After that I can get k3b to burn a CD, and everything goes pretty smoothly. However, k3b still complains that it doesn't have right permissions to run cdrdao, and suggests using k3b setup to fix this. Again, k3b setup cannot do this. debconf does not have an option for setting suid for cdrdao, so the only way I can think of enabling it to work with k3b is something like doing chmod 4754 cdrdao as a root user. My understanding is that cdrdao is something one can live without, but it would be nice to have it in one's toolbox. All in all this is not a problem that cannot be fixed relatively easily, but k3b does not work "out of the box", and furthermore gives misleading messages as to how to enable it to burn CDs. That kind of defeats the purpose of k3b as it is intended to make CD burning user friendly. It would be good if this can be sortedout before etch freeze. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with. Thanks, Slaven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
