From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 16:46:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC5837B404 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from joloxbox.joshualokken.com (12-225-249-250.client.attbi.com [12.225.249.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB49C43F93 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:46:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshualokken@attbi.com) Received: from joloxbox.joshualokken.com (localhost.joshualokken.com [127.0.0.1])h39Nj9bF023183; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshualokken@attbi.com) Received: (from jolok@localhost) by joloxbox.joshualokken.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h39Nj5pD023182; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:45:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: joloxbox.joshualokken.com: jolok set sender to joshualokken@attbi.com using -f Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:45:05 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken To: "E. J. Cerejo" Message-ID: <20030409234505.GA23120@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> References: <20030409175619.V91268-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: little to none X-OS: FreeBSD joloxbox.joshualokken.com 4.8-STABLE i386 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: cdrecord, cdrdao and gtoaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:46:11 -0000 * E. J. Cerejo (edinho64@netscape.net) wrote: ==> ==> ==> fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar wrote: ==> >On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, E. J. Cerejo wrote: ==> > ==> > ==> >>That didn't work either! I gave it write permissions but I still get ==> >>the same error. ==> > ==> > ==> >Instead of messing with the permissions, why don't you try sudo? ==> >That way, you can run the programs as root. works like a charm. ==> > ==> > ==> > Fer ==> > ==> ==> I've heard very good things about sudo but I was never able to figure ==> out on how to write the sudoers file from reading the man page, I tried ==> to use it for the mount command before I ended up doing something else ==> to solve that problem instead of sudo and since then I haven't fooled ==> around with sudo anymore. I looked for a simple tutorial on it but ==> didn't find much documentation except for the manuals. You need to use the visudo utility that comes with sudo. This will allow you to edit the sudoers file (/etc/sudoers) to allow users, groups, etc. to use the root commands you specify. -- Joshua ==> ==> ==> ==> _______________________________________________ ==> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ==> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions ==> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"