Wodim trouble

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Libburn is based on a wrong asumption: libburn only works partly on Linux
>> in non-root mode
>
> Actually, burning as non-root works just fine on GNU/Linux.
>
>> and the vast majority of other OS needs root permissions to burn.
>
> Those OSes are broken and need to be fixed.
>
>> Installing a GUI suid root is an absolute no-go as GUIs are so compley
>> that it is hard to audit the code for security problems.
>
> We know this very well. All the Fedora system-config-* tools are being more
> or less rewritten to use PolicyKit to only do the parts as root which need
> to run as root instead of running the whole GUI config tool as root. The
> same is happening with KDE's System Settings and the KAuth framework (which
> is based on PolicyKit on GNU/Linux).
>
> But the point is that CD/DVD/BluRay burning does not and should not require
> root privileges at all!
>

Kevin,
  please. Stop responding.

-sv