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

Alan Cox
2004-08-09T15:42:35Z

On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 15:12, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >Linux has capabilities, ACLs and SELinux rulesets which can
> >also be used to manage this. I can give the cd burner a role that
> >permits it certain things.
>
> If you are right, why then is SuSE removing the warnings in cdrecord
> that are there to tell the user that cdrecord is running with insufficient
> privilleges?

You'd have to ask them. Probably for the reason that most vendors
remove a lot of the other weird warnings - it confuses end users.