Re: SUID to cdrecord and cdrdao

[Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com>]

Alan Cox napsal(a):
> 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
>   
Imagine that someone starts kernel compilation "make -j 100" and someone 
else starts "cp -r / /back" :) . Not so typical situation but cd burning 
with suid could end fine more probably :)

-A-