atapicam(4) as KLD?

[Mattias Schlenker]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>Burning to SCSI CD/DVD media isn't done like that.
>
>cdrecord et al talk to the writer directly via xpt and pass, so if you want to 
>allow non-root users to burn CD/DVDs you need to allow them access to pass 
>and xpt (which is pretty bad from a security point of view..)
>
>It sucks having to choose between features (growisofs, cdrecord, cdda2wav) and 
>security (burncd) although I hear Soren has a version of the Schilly SCSI 
>library that talks to IDE devices (but I doubt you can pick and choose..)
>  
>

Personally, for creating MP3s I use dagrab and for burning data as well 
as audio I use burncd. I guess, the functionality and the number of 
features is sufficient for most users, too. The problem are some of the 
GUI-frontends that rely on cdrecord's syntax for commandline options.

Maybe not the most elegant solution, but sufficient in terms of 
functionality and without the security issues of atapicam would be some 
kind of ,,burncd-cdrecord-compat'' either realized as a simple shell 
script wrapper or a ,,fork'' of burncd that behaves like cdrecord. All 
those pretty GUI tools would need just a simple adjustment in the path 
to cdrecord.

Mattias

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