On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:47:29PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > In kernel 2.6.8 and later, SCSI generic commands are verified for > safety. This may be a reasonable measure in some respects, but it > makes effective non-root CD/DVD burning rather difficult. For best > performance cdrecord, growisofs and friends may often need to send > SCSI commands to drives that the kernel may neither know about nor > understand. And (to add to the pain) these commands are very often > vendor- or device-specific, so simply allowing those commands in the > kernel will defeat the point of the verification in the first place.
The whole point of the verification is to allow safe access to a selected set of raw commands for normal users. root (or rather a process that has CAP_SYS_RAWIO) can send any command. if you need unknown commands just make sure to burn as root, as everything else would be unsafe anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
