Messages in this thread | | | From | Luke-Jr <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) (was: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?) | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:24:52 +0000 |
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On Friday 03 February 2006 14:08, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >2. find out the current state of affairs, > >> > >> I am currently able to properly write all sorts of CD-R/RW and DVD±R/RW, > >> DVD-DL with no problems using > >> cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdb > >> it _currently_ works, no matter how ugly or not this is from either > >> Jörg's or any other developer's POV - therefore it's fine from the > >> end-user's POV. > > > >How did you manage to burn a dual layer disc? I have been completely > >unsuccessful at doing this at all. :( > > You have to add -driver=mmc_dvdplusr , because the Dual Layer discs are > not yet in the ProDVD database as it seems.
ProDVD is immoral software. I use growisofs.
> >> I'm fine (=I agree) with the general possibility of having it setuid, > >> though. > > > >Provided it doesn't allow burning files the real-user shouldn't be able to > >access... But since cdrecord is commonly suid-root, I presume this has > > long been taken into consideration. > > Security-critical environments like data centers
I'm not referring to anything security-critical, but basic minimal UNIX file permissions. If I have a file that's go-r, I expect that Joe Random User can't burn a CD/DVD with that file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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