System Recovery

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Jul 15 21:17:25 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 19:28 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> 
> 
> 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. 

Correction: k3b complains if cdrecord isn't suid. Or at least it used
to. That might be remedied now. Haven't actually used k3b in some time.



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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com



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