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
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