possible solution to cdbakeoven failing to detect ATAPI burners

[Holger Bauer]

Charles Howse wrote:

>On Thursday 27 November 2003 11:16 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
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>>Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> writes:
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>>>There has been signifigant discussion here in the past about cdbakeoven
>>>not detecting ATAPI burners when run as an ordinary user.
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>>>I had this issue, and may have a solution.
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>>>Be sure your kernel is compiled with device atapicam.
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>>>As root do:
>>># chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
>>>Which will allow cdrecord to run as suid root.
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>>In other words, it's still not being run as an ordinary user...
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>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?
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You can simply give a normal user rw-access to /dev/cd*, /dev/xpt* and 
/dev/pass* and it works too. No need to set suid cdrecord. IMHO a much 
better solution.

Holger