permissions

JB mesimpleton at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 17 23:25:02 EDT 2003


I did find the info for the CD burner permissions. I
was way off with the fstab edit. I still don't know
what the security risk would be and it also says just
setting permissions does not help? Heh?

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

--- JB <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> 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 picture about
> groups, users, chown and chmod. I appreciate all the
> help and I think I have enough information to get
> the
> job done. I'll attempt it again in the near future
> after I digest some more reading in those areas.
> I also want to let all users have use of the CD
> burner
> but I think that permission is set in fstab, if I'm
> not mistaken? I remember reading it somewhere, but
> for
> the life of me I haven't found that info yet. I
> think
> it was in a howto, I just haven't dug very deep to
> find that info yet. I think it is defaulted to only
> root access for some type of security reason? If
> someone wants to touch bases on that subject, it
> would
> save me some hair pulling, hehehe.
> Thanks again,
> John




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