[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Johann Peter Dirichlet]

2010/1/27 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> Gaurish Sharma <contact at gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
>
>> One more thing
>> cdrtools required it to be run as root, isn't that dangerous. any
>> method by which we give the required permissions to normal user?
>
> There are two possible solutions:
>
> 1)      Look at the turkish Linux distro that delivers a complete
>        uncastrated Linux, create a linux distro that includes the
>        needed features (make sure that these features cannot be
>        unconfigured) and send me a version so I can start implementing
>        support for fine grained privileges on Linux into cdrtools.
>
> 2)      Continue to deliver a reduced Linux that does not give you the
>        choice for a different solution and live with the consequences
>        that force you to install cdrecord/readcd/cdda2wav suid root
>        in order to gain the needed privileges.

It is a Linux kernel issue (make menuconfig)? Or just a "install this
package in order to fine control cdrtools privileges"?

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