SUID to cdrecord and cdrdao
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Tue May 22 12:18:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:11:00PM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote:
> I did some quick think about SUID bits to /usr/bin/cdrecord (wodim) and
> /usr/bin/cdrdao . I'm using k3b for burning and it always write warnings
> like cdrecord will be run with root privileges. What do you think about
> it? Could it cause some security issues or something bad?
It's completely unneccessary on typical modern computer systems. Ignore the
warnings they really only apply on ancient slow systems. (486 etc)
Alan
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