On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:04:40PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:24:20PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:28:41AM +0100, Richard Thrippleton wrote: > > > > This clearly isn't an impossible problem - my Ubuntu-using friends > > > > can burn CDs with cdrecord as a non-root user as well. > > > > > > As far as I can see the latest Ubuntu cdrecord package also uses SUID > > > settings to confer Cd writing privileges to members of the group cdrom. > > > > cdrecord is 0755/root:root by default in Ubuntu. > > Indeed. My mistake. My reasons: > > (a) I found that Ubuntu also asks the same debconf question. > > (b) I could find no patch in Ubuntu's cdrecord that could make > it possible for it to behave differently for this. > > So how does Ubuntu manage this?
It is the default in both Debian and Ubuntu: Template: cdrecord/SUID_bit Type: boolean Default: false -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

