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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
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Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
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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?
 
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