Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:20:03 GMT From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Message-ID: <200909282020.n8SKK3bZ033825@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: patfbsd@davenulle.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:10:25 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> wrote: > > > The support for ATAPICAM is loadable as a kernel module too. We > > > can probably add ATAPICAM to the default 'GENERIC' kernel config > > > file. It may also be useful to patch cdrtools to try kldload-ing > > > "atapicam.ko" when it detects that "dev.atapicam.0.%driver" is not > > > available as a sysctl knob. > > > > If you believe that this is needed and helps, please help with the > > implementation as I plan to pulish cdrtools-3.0-final in areox. 2 > > weeks. > > IMHO that is not needed, just because it is not enough. On FreeBSD, > cdrecord is not installed with the suid root bit and the user must also > set the good properties on the devices xpt, pass and cd with devfs(8). IFAIK, cdrecord needs root privileges. If this is true, why isn't it delivered suid root? http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
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