Re: 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM

From: Petri Kaukasoina
Date: Mon Aug 16 2004 - 08:35:20 EST


On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:38:17PM +0200, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:43:53 -0700
> John Wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > K3B detects my Lite-on LTR-52327S CDRW as a CDROM when run with 2.6.8.1.
>
> Due to the newly added command filtering, you now need to run cdrecord as
> root. Since cdrecord will drop root privileges before accessing the drive,
> setuid root won't help.


I can't confirm this.

I also have LITE-ON LTR-52327S and suid-root cdrecord burns just fine with
kernel 2.6.8.1. It's cdrecord 2.00.3 from Slackware. (I don't use any
graphic front end). cdrecord -checkdrive tells among other things this:
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
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