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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:07:34 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>, eric@lammerts.org,
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Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices
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On Mon, Aug 09 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 13:24, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > On Linux, it is impossible to run cdrecord without root privilleges.
> > Make cdrecord suid root, it has been audited....
> 
> Wrong. Although in part that is a bug in the kernel urgently needing
> a fix.

Even with that fixing, write privileges on the device would be enough.
So root would still not be required.

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Jens Axboe