[gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges
Hello, i recently installed K3B. When i start the application a window pops up and says something like cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve this problem. The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. I have Gnome installed but no KDE, is the K3B-setup only available when i use KDE. Thank You! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: Hello, i recently installed K3B. When i start the application a window pops up and says something like cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve this problem. The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. I have Gnome installed but no KDE, is the K3B-setup only available when i use KDE. Yes. Or rather, that tool is only available when you enable the kde USE flag when emerging K3b. So if you installed with it disabled, you don't have it. But you don't need it, for two reasons: 1) that message is in error. I get it all the time (every time I run K3b, which I also compiled without the kde USE flag), and K3b works just fine. The problem seems to be a combination of a) changes to cdrdao, which formerly required the sticky bit set to run as a non root user. This is no longer the case, but b) k3b which was supposed to have been updated to suppress this message, seems to have not been so repaired, so it's living in the past. 2) If you really do need for whatever reason to set the sticky bit on cdrdao, you are perfectly capable of opening a root filemanager, selecting the cdrdao binary and re-setting the permissions manually. So relax. Everything is, afaik, all right. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] K3B - cdrado without root privileges [SOLVED]
Thank you all for your help. I was just a little confused about the message, because as holly said k3b works fine even with this message. Holly Bostick schrieb: Daniel Pielmeier schreef: Hello, i recently installed K3B. When i start the application a window pops up and says something like cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve this problem. The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. I have Gnome installed but no KDE, is the K3B-setup only available when i use KDE. Yes. Or rather, that tool is only available when you enable the kde USE flag when emerging K3b. So if you installed with it disabled, you don't have it. But you don't need it, for two reasons: 1) that message is in error. I get it all the time (every time I run K3b, which I also compiled without the kde USE flag), and K3b works just fine. The problem seems to be a combination of a) changes to cdrdao, which formerly required the sticky bit set to run as a non root user. This is no longer the case, but b) k3b which was supposed to have been updated to suppress this message, seems to have not been so repaired, so it's living in the past. 2) If you really do need for whatever reason to set the sticky bit on cdrdao, you are perfectly capable of opening a root filemanager, selecting the cdrdao binary and re-setting the permissions manually. So relax. Everything is, afaik, all right. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
