Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Essantially making mkisofs a+rx is no harm whatsoever.
>>
>> I create .iso's the get written using another machine, the
>> machine I create the .iso's on does not have a CD writer,
>> and I would prefer to be able to create .iso's as me,
>> they still end up group owned by cdwriter.
>
>
> nop. Mkisofs may need to read previous sessions in multi-session mode,
> which requires to be suid root.
> sorry :-(
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but mkisofs reads previous
sessions either from a device, or a file.
It would only be required to be suid root if the source device or file
was owner/group root,
and not readable by anybody else (very unlikely, and very easily fixed)
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