Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody). > Pointer? Oops. scsidev is a part of the scsitools package. Remco -- qn195-66-31-144: 11:00pm up 8 days, 23:14, 6 users, load average: 2.03, 1.49, 1.69 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-13 Thread ferret
Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody). Pointer? On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed > > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI b

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices > are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default) > scd devices are group aud

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:48:14AM -0400, Dale E. Martin wrote: > I can see how you arrived at the solution that you did now though. So > far, you're the only person that's sent me email advocating SUID root. > Would documenting that as a solution, and describing how to do it in > Readme.Debian,

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-12 Thread ferret
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Dale E. Martin wrote: > > The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed > > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices > > are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default) > > scd devices are g

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-12 Thread Dale E. Martin
> The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed > to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices > are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default) > scd devices are group audio, perm 0660, and my cdripper account is in t

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-12 Thread ferret
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Dale E. Martin wrote: > > Basically, cdparanoia requires use of 'scsi-generic' (/dev/sg*) when > > reading from SCSI cdrom drives. /dev/sg device nodes are created with > > root.root ownership and mode 0600. > > Which is correct - you definitely want tight access on your dev

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting "Dale E. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As relaxing permissions in general on /dev/sg* would create more of a > > potential security risk for SCSI-based systems, and there is no > > constant mapping between [/dev/scd*] and [/dev/sg*], cdparanoia should > > be made suid root and should dr

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-11 Thread Dale E. Martin
> Basically, cdparanoia requires use of 'scsi-generic' (/dev/sg*) when > reading from SCSI cdrom drives. /dev/sg device nodes are created with > root.root ownership and mode 0600. Which is correct - you definitely want tight access on your devices. > As relaxing permissions in general on /dev/sg