On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 05:00:25PM -0500, eric clover wrote:
> > im trying to burn cd's using gtoaster (gnome-toaster), after much chowning I
> > got all my cd
[snip]
>
> A lot of the things gtoaster is trying to do (tweak the process priority
> and kernel scheduling and device reservation) can only be done by uid 0.
>
> There's three fixes to this problem.
>
> 1) setuid 0 the gtoaster binary
> 2) remove these function calls from the program and try to play nice on
> the system while it's burning CD's.
> 3) Re-write gtoaster so that the code which frobs those settings is
> separate from the main app and can be in it's own small setuid binary that
> is simpler and can be written in a secure manner.
...and here's a fourth:
4) use sudo! In your configuration there is an option to specify the
record command. You can use 'sudo cdrecord' instead of the default
and you shouldn't have any problems. (I guess someone has already
done 3 above)
Plenty of alternatives here. Enjoy!
Carey
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