From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: CDRecord is not suid root by default, hence some programs do not work out of the box(such as Nautilus 2.6.0-4 Cd creator). This may be this way for security reasons, but this might be a problem for Joe Sixpack. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cdrecord-2.01-0.a27.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run nautilus 2. Choose cd-creator 3. Try to make a cd Actual Results: Nautilus will give one a error about not being able to write to the CD Expected Results: Nautilus should have burned the CD.. Additional info: a workaround is to run chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord as root.
Not a good workaround. cdrecord would need wrapping carefully for such things. Nautilus would I suspect need a small, non X using wrapper that carefully fed the iso to the cd burner app and no interesting other user provided arguments
We don't need setuid root. consolehelper should set the access rights on the cd writer (/dev/cdwriter* as created by kudzu) so that the console user can just use it. This used to work well. Did it break?
Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please test this on FC5 or FC6. If it still occurs there, please reopen and change the version to fc5 or fc6. Otherwise, if this is a security issue, please reassign the bug to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we apologize for not getting to this bug earlier.