[lug] cdrecord with KRUD9

John Karns jkarns at csd.net
Thu Oct 30 10:33:38 MST 2003


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Gary Hodges said:

>
> I've been doing some more google searching, this time on "WARNING:
> Cannot set RR-scheduler" and found some things...

...

> "When cdrecord is run suid root it will work.  However, it won't have
> access to the function setpriority() listed below.  If you want to do
> away with those errors, you will have to run cdrecord as root (ex: sudo
> cdrecord)"
> ---------------
>
> Its starting to look like I will have to put up with the warnings if I
> want to run as a regular user.

Or you could set up sudoers to allow running the app for the desired group
of users as root with no pw required.  I've done this on workstations
where I wanted to allow the otherwise unpriviledged user to shutdown the
system from a menu selection.

--
John Karns




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