[TriLUG] cdrecord as non-root user
Brent Fox
bfox at linuxheadquarters.com
Thu Jan 29 08:52:23 EST 2004
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 13:20, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Hi All-
>
> I want to setup a box so that non-root users can use cdrecord. The
> only reasonable method I've been able to find so far is to give
> specific suers 'sudo' privileges. Is this the only/easiest option?
> I'd prefer if normal users did not have permissions which would enable
> them to edit whatever they feel necessary when they feel like it.
I believe that in Fedora Core 1 cdrecord is setup this way by default.
I stumbled across it one day while trying to use cdrecord but I forgot
to su to root. As soon as I hit <Return> I thought, "Wait, that's not
going to work." Then it did. :)
Cheers,
Brent
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