160707 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> If anyone else uses Xcdroast to write CDs or DVDs, >> I suggest they read Bug 345337 & submit appropriate comments. >> There seems to be no problem on single-user systems, >> but a 6-year-old bug which applies to multi-user systems >> is being used as an excuse to remove Xcdroast from the tree. >> There was a similar issue with Nethack recently too. > This should not be a problem, as long as you use Cdrtools > that are more recent than from April 2013, > when Linux started to support fine grained privileges in the userland. > All you need to do is to is to disable the xcdroast suid wrapper.
Thanks for the prompt and useful response : I've quoted it in the bug debate, with further comments. I'm well aware of the lengthy debate on the Dev list re tree-cleaning, which I intend to add a comment to later today. PS James seems not to have read Bug 345337 : I suggest he does (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
