Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Joerg Schilling
2004-08-10T10:35:46Z

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>From: Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>

>On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:40:52 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Schilling
><schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> People who use the official cdrecord know that they need to run cdrecord
>> with root privilleges. People who run the bastardized version from SuSE
>> don't know this and fail to write CDs.

>This is why people should be using Debian to begin with. Debian asks
>if you want to install cdrecord with suid so everyone can burn cds
>without needing to be root first.

Indeed! Altough minor things could be better with Debian too, Debian is the only
true Open Source Linux distribution. Other distributions modify programs
without reason and do not cooperate with the original authors :-(

Jörg

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