should I bugzilla xcdroast

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 27 21:19:41 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:12 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> 2008/5/27 John Aldrich <john at chattanooga.net>:
> 
> > What I had to do in FC6 and previous versions was to "chmod +s" on the
> > XCDRoast executable. I know it's a "security risk" but dang it, I want to be
> > able to burn CDs without having to be root! I believe the original (as in
> > tarball version) XCD Roast does not need to be run as root or SUID root.
> 
> I found allowing RT priorities and large mlock() in
> /etc/security/limits.conf fixed most or all of my disc burning issues
> without needing setuid on binaries. YMMV, but something like:
> 
> *   hard    rtprio  100
> *   hard    memlock 32768
> 
> and I repeated for "soft" to make sure it was there by default, but I
> don't think that's actually necessary. Something similar is/was done
> for jack a while back.
> 
I made the changes you indicate . xcdroast still does not work.
You are doing this with f7, f8 or f9?

Any further ideas out there?
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