I can confirm this (I'm not too happy having pointless setuid applications around either - instead I just have rw access to the cdrom device). Here's the sample output;
---- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrecord /mnt/bulk/isos/ubuntu-5.10-live-i386.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent default s. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schi lling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to <[EMAIL PROTECTED] org>. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15.6rt cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: '/dev/cdrom' devname: '/dev/cdrom' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root? : Operation not permitted Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)sc sitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA' Identifikation : 'UJDA765 DVD/CDRW' Revision : '1.00' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl ---- This clearly isn't an impossible problem - my Ubuntu-using friends can burn CDs with cdrecord as a non-root user as well. Having looked over similar reports, I should also add the information that I'm using Linux, not Solaris. That is, I'm using Linux, not Solaris, Solaris isn't relevant. Linux is. The CDROM device is IDE, and strace confirms for sure that cdrecord was opening the correct device. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]