Apostolos Syropoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The problem is that Linux added a security problem in spring 2004 and this > > was > > never fixed. Now 80% of what people like to do works without being root... > > > > > And why only root should be priviliged to play audio? I think this > is insane!
If you like to play audio in high quality (as cdda2wav does), you need to send vendor unique SCSI commands to the drive and the kernel cannot know what these commands do with the current drive. So it _is_ a privileged task. BTW: privileges in moders OS do not always require root. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
