--- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 17:33:24 +0200, Valent
Turkovic wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> this guide is the best guide for Fedora 9!
>>
>>
http://fedoraguide.info/index.php/Main_Page
>>
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Best_guide_for_Fedora_9_ever
>>
>> How to setup MP3 and Video codecs, ATI and Nvidia
drivers,
>> CompizFusion, etc... you need it they got it :)
>>
>> Probably most of your question about Fedora 9 are
answered there and
>> the solutions are simple.
>
> Whoever added the setuid cdrecord stuff for k3b,
please delete that
> or at least give the rationale for making the
tools +s. k3b's warning
> can't be the only reason.
>
Just a clarification, I cdrecord is not installed on
FC9 at all, rather
there is a program called "wodim" which is linked to
cdrecord. Wodim is
a modified version of an old version of cdrecord,
not the current
program from the original author.
By any name the kernel filters commands send to the
burner which
prevents certain commands from being sent unless you
are root,
particularly commands specific to a particular
vendor. The author of the
original and still maintained cdrecord program asked
that the command
filtering be changed, but the kernel maintainers
declined. The author of
cdrecord was invited to learn to use capabilities
rather than root, and
*he* declined. As you might guess, there are
personalities and politics
involved, and the result is that cdrecord needs to
run as setuid root.
Since Fedora is usually pretty cutting edge, it
would be nice if wodim
were called that, and only that, and since a setuid
program is being
run, why not the real cdrecord? I suspect there are
politics involved
there as well. It's disappointing that Fedora didn't
change to using
capabilities, although that may be harder than it
seems.
In any case, there's the overview and the technical
issue, you need
privileged commands to burn on some hardware, and
there are some monster
egos in play. Perhaps someone will comment on why
not real cdrecord and
capabilities.
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Bill,
The solution is at hand. Download the original
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-beta.tar.gz
install it from source. You may decide to keep both
and use which one works best for you. If you install
it, k3b recognizes this and automatically configures
it for you. Do not worry about the CDDL license, it
is an open source license :). The problem with it is
politics and GPL :(. You can freely use the program
if you need to. NO salesman should come knocking in
your door.
Regards,
Antonio