Truth be told, i've always run it as root too. I dont' see what the big
deal is. If you're going to directly access the hardware, its prolly
better that root do it anyway. Or go with sudo.
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Susan Macchia wrote:
> I always run it as root because I really don't care to worry about running it
> as "me". So I simply set up an icon that uses kdesu. Then when I click the
> icon, I enter the root password and gcombust comes up and I cna burn with no
> problemo.
>
> I could never get xcdroast to work. (or kconcd either). Since gcombust works
> and is so configurable, I have stuck with it.
>
>
> Tim Wunder wrote:
>
> > OK gcombust lovers, how do I get the damn program to work as non-root?
> > This is a permissions issue that seems to be escaping me.
> >
> > My symptoms are as follows:
> > I start gcombust and go to the Burn tab, then click the "Check scsi settings"
>
> > button. I am then presented with an error message,
> > "cdrecord failed to recognize selected drive (wrong scsi settings or no
> > permission to device)"
> >
> >
> > /dev/scd0 is my reader (it's a CDRW, but it don't write too good anymore)
> > /dec/scd1 is my CDRW - Liteon 241016
> >
> > Permissions are (now) as follows:
> > brwxrwxrwx 2 root root 11, 0 Feb 23 22:10 /dev/scd0
> > brwxrwxrwx 2 root root 11, 1 Feb 23 22:10 /dev/scd1
> >
> > Last night when I was trying this, permissions on /dev/scd1 were
> > brwx------ 2 dad root 11, 1 Feb 23 22:10 /dev/scd1
> > and I changed it to
> > brwxrwxrwx 2 dad root 11, 1 Feb 23 22:10 /dev/scd1
> > with no change to the behavior of gcombust
> >
> > This morning, permissions on /dev/scd1 were (before I changed them to the
> > previously mentioned perm's)
> > brwx------ 2 root root 11, 1 Feb 23 22:10 /dev/scd1
> > I don't know how this got changed from last nights settings.
> >
> > Permissions on /dev/scd0 don't seem to change. When I click the "Check scsi
> > settings" button while /dev/scd0 is selected as my reader, I get the same
> error
> > message.
> >
> > It works fine as root ('cept I don't want to have to run the proggy as root).
> > Any ideas?
> > At this point, I'm back to using xcdroast :-(
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
>
>
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