possible solution to cdbakeoven failing to detect ATAPI burners

[Charles Howse]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 11:16 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> writes:
> > There has been signifigant discussion here in the past about cdbakeoven
> > not detecting ATAPI burners when run as an ordinary user.
> >
> > I had this issue, and may have a solution.
> >
> > Be sure your kernel is compiled with device atapicam.
> >
> > As root do:
> > # chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
> > Which will allow cdrecord to run as suid root.
>
> In other words, it's still not being run as an ordinary user...

cdbakeoven *is* being run as an ordinary user, which was the original issue, 
but to detect an atapi burner, it has to do 'cdrecord -scanbus', which will 
fail if not run as root.  Make sense?


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Thanks,
Charles
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