[Discuss] K3b issue and cdrecord

[Murray Strome]

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.Bakshi" <bakshi12 at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, July 9, 2006 4:17 am
Subject: Re: [Discuss] K3b issue and cdrecord

> On Saturday 08 Jul 2006 7:02 am, Murray Strome wrote:
> 
> > While I am no expert, I have found that if I start K3b as root 
> (su), it
> > usually works just fine without any problems.  I have had troubles
> > trying to use it as a user. Also, when burning a CD/DVD you have 
> to be
> > careful to NOT include any linked files -- they foul things up.
> >
> > Murray
> 
> I have just done some serious reading on K3b. K3b is dependent on 
> cdrecord and 
> cdrdao for writing CD. Now the man pages says that cdrecord and 
> cdrdao 
> perform the best when they work with the highest priority and with 
> full 
> control. This is possible as root. But in case of a user cdrecord 
> and cdrdao 
> should have SUID bit set to enjoy the root facility. hence K3b-
> setup changes 
> the permission of cdrecord and cdrdao to have SUID bit set. and 
> then even as 
> a normal user one can write CD smoothly.

I know it SHOULD work smoothly when run as a normal user, and I have found that SOMETIMES it does so.  However, I have found that it to be most reliable when run as root.