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2.6.8 and CD recording

2.6.8 and CD recording

Posted Aug 19, 2004 8:15 UTC (Thu) by dvrabel (subscriber, #9500)
In reply to: 2.6.8 and CD recording by evgeny
Parent article: 2.6.8 and CD recording

cdrecord only uses root priviledges for setting real-time scheduling and locking memory. It drops them after that so it does the burning as a regular user.


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2.6.8 and CD recording

Posted Aug 24, 2004 11:39 UTC (Tue) by mwilck (guest, #1966) [Link]

What about the special commands ("send OPC", "blank", etc.) mentioned in the text? According to the article, these should fail if they are executed with user priviliges.

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