cdrecord checks access permissions against the users login before giving
access to files, not relying solely on the OS to do this. It is therefore
okay to make it SUID root. Once you do that you don't need root access to
burn CDs.
The GUIs do work of course, but it maybe true that some are better than
others. I use kisocd (kisocdII for kde2). It doesn't look so cool or slick,
but it does the job okay. Its best feature is that it supports mkisofs
features that allow you to pick files/dirs to write and allows you to
pre-organize them into a new dir structure that will be written to CD. Most
GUIs will only let you write a pre-existing dir structure. This feature
works really well when selecting a bunch of carefully chosen dirs for
backup. Other GUIs really NEED this feature.
After kisocd, koncd looks like a reasonable bet.
Goto http://apps.kde.com/ and do a search for CD to find others a reviews.
Nick.
Ron Stodden wrote:
> Caleb Newville wrote:
> >
> > Ok, so I have the SCSI emulation working, and HardDrake confirms that.
> > I would now like to know a good piece of burn software (KDE prefered).
>
> cdrecord is in Mandrake 8.0 and is very easy to use from the command
> line (always use -v). You must be root.
>
> Run cdrecord -scanbus to verify your scsi emulation is working.
> This will aslo give you the parameters you will need for the dev
> parameter of cdrecord.
>
> Read:
>
> man cdrecord
>
> man mkisofs
>
> PS. My experience is than NONE of the GUI base cdwriting packages
> work.
