cd writing

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:06 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Just wondering...
> 
> When I write a cd at the prompt using cdrecord, I have to be root, or sodo
> cdrecord. When writing the cd from nautilus (as user), by drag-and-drop,
> I'm not being asked for any root password, or anything. Out of curiosity,
> what does nautilus do behind the scenes to write the cd?
> 
> 
> 

It has to do with pam.
You should be able to use cdrecord from the cli if you are the first
user logged into the console - I usually don't because my burner is on a
headless machine where I can't log directly - but that certainly was the
difference in the past.

cat /var/run/console/console.lock

That user should (at least in the past) be able to use cdrecord
directly.