Announcement re suid'd cdrecord

[Paul Howarth]

Dave wrote:
> There was an announcement yesterday about updating cdrecord if it has
> been manually suid'd. The link didn't give me any further information
> but does that mean if it's not been suid'd then do not update it.
> 
> Although this morning it's in my list of up2dates to do !
> 
> So if I do do will it mess anything up, like the 2.6.8 kernel does with
> k3b? I'd hate that to happen as I have this FC2 machine working better
> than 2 Windows machine I have.

This is a wild guess having not looked at the code, but I suspect that the 
updated cdrecord will refuse to run if it has been installed setuid root 
because, as the update announcement noted, that would be a very stupid thing 
to do.

Paul.