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 Random Murphy's Law: If there was any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.
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