On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody).
Pointer?
Oops. scsidev is a part of the scsitools package.
Remco
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Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody).
Pointer?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed
to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Dale E. Martin wrote:
Basically, cdparanoia requires use of 'scsi-generic' (/dev/sg*) when
reading from SCSI cdrom drives. /dev/sg device nodes are created with
root.root ownership and mode 0600.
Which is correct - you definitely want tight access on your devices.
The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed
to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices
are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default)
scd devices are group audio, perm 0660, and my cdripper account is in the
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Dale E. Martin wrote:
The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed
to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices
are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default)
scd devices are group
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:48:14AM -0400, Dale E. Martin wrote:
I can see how you arrived at the solution that you did now though. So
far, you're the only person that's sent me email advocating SUID root.
Would documenting that as a solution, and describing how to do it in
Readme.Debian,
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed
to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices
are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default)
scd devices are group audio,
Basically, cdparanoia requires use of 'scsi-generic' (/dev/sg*) when
reading from SCSI cdrom drives. /dev/sg device nodes are created with
root.root ownership and mode 0600.
Which is correct - you definitely want tight access on your devices.
As relaxing permissions in general on /dev/sg*
Quoting Dale E. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As relaxing permissions in general on /dev/sg* would create more of a
potential security risk for SCSI-based systems, and there is no
constant mapping between [/dev/scd*] and [/dev/sg*], cdparanoia should
be made suid root and should drop root
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