SOLVED! Re: cdrecord no workie after upgade to 2.6.10

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:09:46 -0800, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On 01/02/2005 01:07 PM, Hermann J. Beckers wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 21:30 schrieb Net Llama!:
> >
> >
> >>All kernels since 2.6.8 only allow root to write to a CD drive.  This
> >>won't change unless the kernel behavior changes.
> >
> >
> > I beg to differ:
> >
> >
> > "Script wurde gestartet: So 02 Jan 2005 21:59:33 CET
> > >bash-2.05b$ uname -a
> > Linux dhcppc0 2.6.8.1-20mdksmp #1 SMP Mon Nov 8 11:08:35 CET 2004 i686
> > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz unknown GNU/Linux
> > bash-2.05b$ exit
> >
> > Script beendet: So 02 Jan 2005 21:59:39 CET"
> >
> > This is Mandrake 10.1 CE; k3b is 0.11.14 (KDE 3.2.3), cdrecord 2.1-dvd,
> > mkisofs 2.1.
> >
> > Yours
> > hjb
> 
> All you've shown above is that you're running kernel 2.6.8.1, not that
> you can burn CDs as a non-root user.  But i'm assuming that's the point
> you're trying to make?
> 
> What is cdrecord-2.1?  I don't see any such version anywhere on Joerg's
> website.
> 
> 

I seem to remember that Mandrake (?) and SUSE (?) have provided kernel
patches to back out the root-only behavior?

-- 
 Collins