Lastest Kernel update breaks k3b

Fri Aug 20 08:09:08 UTC 2004

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:58, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 00:45, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > ok I thought you had since you say it's a known bug....
> 
> Yes, it's likely the SCSI command filtering that got stuck into 2.6.8
> (there are a couple of threads about this on LKML) in order to prevent
> ordinary users (i.e. without CAP_SYS_RAWIO) from sending potentially
> dangerous commands to drives (e.g. firmware updates). The list of
> allowed commands apparently isn't long enough to let ordinary users
> write CDs.


ah that thing. Yes that is problematic, especially since some of the
commands used during cd burning appear to belong on the "dangerous"
list... 
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