Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 à 14:43 +0200, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > If you did read the mail from the OP, you would know that cdrecord was not > running as root or suid root at least in one example. Note that cdrecord > _needs_ root privilleges in order work correctly.
A CD burning program needing root privileges to work correctly is obviously broken. Privileges are handled by device permissions, not by making setuid root any kind of badly written software in the world. For example, dvd+rw-tools doesn't need root privileges to work correctly. > I did receive enough reports from frustrated Debian users (including the > k3b authors) to know that there _is_ a problem with the Debian variant of > cdrecord that prevents it working properly. This problem is not present in > the > original version of cdrecord. Sorry, but Debian only ships free software. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
