[wellylug] Kernel 2.6.8.1 & CD Writing

[Grant McLean]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 08:29, Jethro Carr wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 04:29, Ian Sterling wrote:
> > > It means that you can only record cdr's as the root user. :-(( I hate
> > > having to su - into root. :-(. It's also annoying as other users who
> > > don't have admin access can't login.
> > 
> > Howabout using sudo (which you should use over plain ol' su, anyway)
> > or making cdrecord suid? (which isn't a //great// idea, but it would
> > work)
> 
> yea, possible. Still annoying though. I'll need a terminal in the
> background while running X CD Roast.

There are X wrappers for sudo.  For example gksu provides sudo
functionality using Gtk to prompt for a password where necessary:

  http://www.nongnu.org/gksu

And of course, you can always configure sudoers so that no password is
required to run xcdroast.

Grant