Re: Cd Burning

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:25, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le lun 16/09/2002 à 11:16, Thomas Vander Stichele a écrit :
> 
> > thing to do.  Just being a front-end for a cmd-line invocation of cdrecord 
> > is probably not such a good idea.  That's also where most cd recording 
> > apps fail to be good - they're a slap-on front-end for cdrecord.
> 
> There's a reason for that: the cd recording application often needs to
> had administrator rights, and UI applications on the other hand should
> only run as "normal user". Having a separate executable enables nice
> privilege separation, which is not that easy to do otherwise.

No, you just need sufficient rights to the devices, that's all. It's
easier to run it as root, most of the time, just add yourself to the
disk (or was it cdrom) group on a Debian system, or install the
necessary PAM modules on RH/MDK.

Clean and simple.

Cheers

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/Bastien Nocera
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