SOLVED! Re: cdrecord no workie after upgade to 2.6.10

[Net Llama!]

On 01/02/2005 01:32 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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?
> 

Ahhh.  That's not really the same as it getting fixed.  In fact, that 
seems rather dangerous behavior, since they are intentionally negating a 
security feature of the kernel.

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