Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom

[Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 09 November 2006 15:10, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:30:36 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
> > Yes, it works as root. I was just investigating ways to set that
> > only for growisofs. One way is to set it in /etc/profile, but
> > that'll affect all processes. I'll let you know when I find the
> > solution. One solution I can think of is to run ulimit followed by
> > growisofs in a subshell.. but the issue is with being root. I'll
> > let you know.
>
> This limit only applies to the root user, so the question becomes
> "why is K3b running growisofs as root?".  Is growisofs suid?

ls -l $(which growisofs)
-rws--x--- 1 root burning 71888 2006-10-19 11:33 /usr/bin/growisofs


Apparently, it is. I suppose it is to do with avoiding issues with users 
being in the proper group for burning the disks.

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