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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:25:31 -0600
From:      Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>, FBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: possible solution to cdbakeoven failing to detect ATAPI burners
Message-ID:  <200311271125.31998.chowse@charter.net>
In-Reply-To: <44wu9lu3zh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <200311271102.20318.chowse@charter.net> <44wu9lu3zh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Thursday 27 November 2003 11:16 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Charles Howse <chowse@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?


-- 
Thanks,
Charles
http://howse.homeunix.net:8080

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