Gcmbust as non-root

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 5/22/2002 9:13 AM, someone claiming to be Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > Since xcdroast works, I would imagine that cdrecord itself has proper
> > permissions. Still, I have to ask...
> >
> > Mine are:
> >
> >   -r-sr-sr-x  1 root  root 185948 Dec 13 13:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord
> >
>
> -rws--x---   1  root  xcdwrite  265232 Apr 29 22:50 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord

That's not the same as what Roger posted.  Not even close.  You can't
execute a file that you can't read.

>
> > I had to do a 'chmod +s' myself. I don't care what the packages claim.
> > It don't work for me without this.
> >
>
> I'm a member of the xcdrwite group, sufficient for executing cdrecord with the perm's it has.

Not when you can't read it.

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