CD burning in FC2 - is it easier?

[Ronny Buchmann]

On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:24, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:43:34PM +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > > battled last week with SELinux on Fedora Core 2, which won't currently
> > > let you burn CDs unless you're root.  That's a bug though that the
> > > SELinux guys are working on.
> >
> > thanks. I knew kernel 2.6 doesn't require scsi emulation anymore (and
> > therefore no root password). But I guess applications (like gtoaster)
> > have to be adapted to use this?
>
> You can't allow applications to issue raw commands without privileges
> by either interface. Not using ide-scsi makes it much easier to handle
> IDE burning - because the device has one name, but doesn't really deal
> with the fact that scsi level command access allows you to do stuff like
> 'erase firmware', which normally suggests root only is good )
Shouldn't setuid root cdrecord be safe with SELinux?

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