[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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