Buring CD's with gcombust while not root

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

I emerged gcombust to use as a graphical frontend for cdrtools to burn cd's. Unfortunately, I can't use gcombust to burn CD's unless I'm in root mode. Does anyone know of a way I can use gcombust from my user accounts to burn CD's rather than in root.

Thanks!
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PowerFactor · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 5:49 am Post subject:

I believe you need to add the users to the cdrw group.
It may not be necessary but I also made cdrecord suid root because it was complaining about not being able to set realtime priority. To make it a bit more secure I set up permissions sort of like xcdroast does.

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

ok, I haven't had to mess with groups in a while, how can I check to see if my users accounts are part of the cdrw group or not?
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NiklasH · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 7:55 am Post subject:

Just check out the file /etc/group

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

thanks, I appreciate it
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Attis SH

Just for the record, the instructions PowerFactor gave works with CD Bake Oven, too. This is a nice cdrtools frontend for KDE.

You have to chmod cdrecord to setuid root to enable realtime priority setting and burnproof.

hoarycripple · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 42

Please note that if you want to setuid /usr/bin/cdrecord (or anything for that matter), you do a