On Monday 11 November 2002 12:35, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > k3b asks for root password on startup.
Yes, once to run its setup tool. > > try adding the user(s) to the group (in /etc/group) that owns the > > device (e.g. (/dev/hdc), and re-login the user(s) for changes to > > take effect. > > All user permissions on my system are set correctly. > I am a seasoned sysadmin, after all. "Polansky's Pointer: If they're absolutely sure it's not there, it's probably there." (Gerald M. Weinberg, "More Secrets of Consulting") The GUI CD-burning apps I know of (cdbakeoven, K3b, koncd, kreatecd) don't themselves need special privileges. They are just frontends for cdrecord and cdrdao. But these later programs do need root privileges or work better if they've got them. K3b is a bit special in this regard. It includes a setup tool that needs to be run but once. This tool does need root privs, but only once. It sets the permissions of cdrecord et al. to 4710, creates a group for cd-burning and adds some users to this group. My advice to anyone interested in using K3B on debian is, to use this tool for the basic configuration of K3b, but *don't* have it change your fstab, groups and permissions. As far as groups go, there's cdrom already there on debian. And permission changes of packaged files are supposed to be recorded with dpkg-statoverride. So, even if you're sure that all your permissions and groups are set up properly, check out if they're something like this: -rws--x--- 1 root cdrom 532292 Oct 16 01:58 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root cdrom 250120 Sep 27 22:42 /usr/bin/cdrecord -rws--x--- 1 root cdrom 405352 Sep 27 22:42 /usr/bin/mkisofs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 2001 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 27 2001 /dev/scd0 crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Apr 6 2001 /dev/sg0 (Assuming ide-scsi emulation. Note the write permission.) And, of course, you've got to be a member of group cdrom. I hope it works out for you. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, "Gattaca"