Announcement re suid'd cdrecord

[Paul Howarth]

Neal D. Becker wrote:
> And given that recent linux kernels disallow cd writing except as root, what
> do you propose?

Switch to root to write the CDs. It is not currently safe to allow regular 
users to do this (http://lwn.net/Articles/98398/).

Many people have suggested reverting to an earlier kernel so that CD burning 
"works" but I suspect that it just a case of ignorning the security issue; I 
think the problem has been there for some time and the 2.6.8 kernels have 
enforced the root-only restriction as a workaround until a "proper" solution
can be found.

Paul.