On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:20:37PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've just switched from cdparanoia to cdda2wav, to get track
> names/artists. As a regular user, I ran...
>
> cdda2wav -vall dev=1,0,0 cddb=0 -paranoia -B
>
> I got a bunch of complaints about insufficient read and write
> privileges, but it seems to work OK. I ran the same command as root,
> and no error messages.
What exactly are the error messages? Most likely you just need to be
added to the group that has access to CD drives or something like that.
> So I figured I'd just stick the command into
> /etc/sudoers.d and run with root privileges under tightly controlled
> conditions. I ran visudo, and appended what would be the 34th line to
> /etc/sudoers.d/001 Here were the tentative 32nd/33rd/34th lines...
>
> waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/fusermount -u /home/waltdnes/tablet
> waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/simple-mtpfs -o allow_other
> /home/waltdnes/tablet
> waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdda2wav -vall dev=1,0,0 cddb=0
> -paranoia -B
>
> When I attempted to exit visudo, I go a not-so-helpfull message...
>
> "/etc/sudoers.d/001.tmp" 34L, 2078C written
> >>> /etc/sudoers.d/001: syntax error near line 34 <<<
> What now?
>
> Like the message says, "What now?". It's currently a moot point
> because cdda2wav seems to work OK, notwithstanding the "insufficient
> permissions" messages. But if I'm doing something wrong with sudoers,
> I'd like to find out what it is now, rather than later when I really
> need it.
Looks like it's the commas. Try:
waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdda2wav -vall dev=1\,0\,0
cddb=0 -paranoia -B
Alec
