[wplug] cd burning

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

On 16 May 2001, Doug Green wrote:

> Hi-
> I'm using gcombust to burn CDs... is there a way to do this without
> having to SU to root? I changed the permissions on my /dev/scd0 (my
> cdrw) but it still doesn't work. I think that cdrecord requires root in
> some subsystems. Perhaps there's a way to at least make the app ask for
> root pass when I launch it (rather than having to have an open terminal
> logged in as root)? I guess sudo will do this?? Any comments/suggestions
> would be helpful. Thanks!
> Doug

i'm pretty sure sudo will do that. also cdburning uses the scsi generic
drivers /dev/sg# i believe.

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