CD permissions

[JB]

I take it back, I still have to sign in as root. When
I first made the changes it opened right up without
requesting the root password, but I tried it today and
gotta give the password. I looked at the permissions
on the cdrecord file and it is owned by root and the
group is users. I also went into setup for xcdroast
but didn't find any type of permission/users stuff. Oh
well, in a week or two I'll try out cdrbq.

--- JB <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I got it but it wasn't the way the HOWTO said.
> chown .users /usr/bin/cdrecord
> chmod 777 /usr/bin/cdrecord
> 
> 
> --- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > You do not have to actually log in as root to run
> > XcdRoast, you have to have
> > the equivalent root authority.  SO you can run
> > Xcdroast form a cmd line with
> > "sudo xcdroast"  granted you are in sudoers file
> > (man sudoers, man visudo, man
> > sudo) or "su" then enter root password and run
> > xcdroast.  If that is what you
> > meatn you were doing then skip to next part:-)
> > 
> > XCDroast has on newer instances a non-root user
> mode
> > that can be enabled.  I
> > clicked the selection box to disable user mode and
> > now I can;t figure out how
> > to get it back :-)!
> > 
> > But if you check your Xcdroast there may be
> atoggel
> > to chang to regular user
> > mode which changes permissions of the correct
> things
> > so teh cdwriter group can
> > use xcdroast.  Now that I clicked the do not use
> > on-root button I have to be a
> > root equiv as well.  Wish I could figure out how t
> > get that back, BUT now I'm
> > playing with K3B since I am using KDE here...
> > 
> > JJN
> > --- JB <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I changed my fstab setting from owner to users
> and
> > ro
> > > to rw but I still have to log into root to use
> the
> > CD
> > > burner. I am currently on a windows box and when
> I
> > try
> > > to download that cdrbq I get a 15k download. I
> am
> > > using  xcdroast which seems to work fine except
> > that I
> > > have to log in as root to use it. I found this
> bit
> > of
> > > information in the HOWTO's about this subject.
> > > 
> > > How can this be set up so that a user can burn
> CDs
> > > instead of always being root?
> > > You can add the setuid-bit to the
> > cdrecord-executable.
> > > However, this might be a security risk. Just
> > setting
> > > the permissions on the device files does not
> help
> > as
> > > cdrecord issues privileged commands via the SCSI
> > > generic interfaces.
> > > which cdrecord
> > > chown root.root /usr/bin/cdrecord
> > > chmod 4111 /usr/bin/cdrecord
> > > 
> > > I wonder if I should change my fstab back or if
> > this
> > > chown, chmod is the next step?
> > > 
> > > JB <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > My fstab is different and I see you must have
> > > > changed
> > > > it to users. Is that all that needs to be
> done?
> > Also
> > > > my fstab has ro instead of rw. I would imagine
> > that
> > > > is
> > > > read write? Here is what I have.
> > > > /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  udf,iso9660
> > > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > > > /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto 
> noauto,owner,kudzu
> > 0 0
> > > > Looks like my floppy is root only too although
> I
> > > > haven't actually tried it out to see for sure.
> > > > If I just change owner to user and maybe ro to
> > rw,
> > > > that should do the trick. I also wonder why
> the
> > > > howto
> > > > info I got earlier is a completely different
> way
> > > > than
> > > > an fstab edit? Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > Here is a printout of my /etc/fstab, note
> the
> > > > cdrom
> > > > > line. After you fix
> > > > > that you can download a file called cdrbq,
> it
> > > > works
> > > > > great. Here is a
> > > > > link to it.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12071&release_id=176647
> > > > > LABEL=/                 /                   
>  
> > 
> > > > ext3
> > > > >    defaults       
> > > > > 1 1
> > > > > LABEL=/boot             /boot               
>  
> > 
> > > > ext3
> > > > >    defaults       
> > > > > 1 2
> > > > > none                    /dev/pts            
>  
> > 
> > > > > devpts  gid=5,mode=620 
> > > > > 0 0
> > > > > none                    /proc               
>  
> > 
> > > > proc
> > > > >    defaults       
> > > > > 0 0
> > > > > none                    /dev/shm            
>  
> > 
> > > > > tmpfs   defaults       
> > > > > 0 0
> > > > > /dev/sda3               swap                
>  
> > 
> > > > swap
> > > > >    defaults       
> > > > > 0 0
> > > > > /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom          
>  
> > 
> > > > > iso9660
> > > > > noauto,users,rw,kudzu,user,unhide 0 0
> > > > > /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy         
>  
> > 
> > > > auto
> > > > >   
> > > > > noauto,users,rw,kudzu 0
> > > > > 0
> > > > > /dev/hdb1               /mnt/windows        
>  
> > 
> > > > vfat
> > > > >    user,rw,umask=0
> > > > > 0 0
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 22:57, JB wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks for all the help with setting
> > > > permissions.
> > > > > I
> > > > > > ended up goofing it all up, but that was
> my
> > > > fault.
> > > > > I
> > > > > > did want to keep each user account
> separate
> > and
> > > > > just
> > > > > > wanted the folder of pictures to be
> shared.
> > I
> > > > now
> > > > > know
> > > > > > that I need to make a generic user which
> > others
> > > > > can
> > > > > > share resources, along with samba. I also
> > know I
> > > > > need
> > > > > > to read up on chmod and chown commands. I
> > read
> > > > > some
> > > > > > today and I almost understand the big
> 
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