System Recovery

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Tue Jul 15 19:28:17 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:02 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Labitt, Bruce
> > <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> > > I was running as a user.  NOT root.
> >
> >   Worrysome.
> >
> >   Though, come to think of it, aren't some disc-recording types of
> > programs normally installed SUID root?
>
> Yep. And k3b tends to complain loudly at startup if it isn't, iirc.
>

I think k3b will refuse to run if it's run SUID.  I think I tried it once &
it compained.
My Fedora 9 and Ubuntu systems do not have it SUID.
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