[luau] Duplicating Music CD

[W. Wayne Liauh]

The default permission (RH 8.0) for /dev/cdrom is 300.  As long as I am 
the user, making it 777 does not make any difference in this case.

Ben Beeson wrote:

>Aloha,
>
>	I haven't played much with this or any other cdripper, but...  I recall that 
>default permissions on my cdrom drive have caused me trouble in the past.  
>Making the cdrom chmod 777 when combined with an appropriate set of 
>permissions in the fstab file fixed all my troubles without having to suid 
>any programs.   For my own purposes, this was a better solution than fixing 
>all the programs. Essentially the only security change I had to worry about 
>was  physical access to the cdrom drive as the software remained the same.   
>Could this or something similar work for cdparanoia?  {I don't have a cd 
>burner, or I'd try it myself. } 
>
>Mele Kalikimaka,
>
>Ben 
>
>On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:52 pm, you wrote:
>  
>
>>In UNIX, a code is better than a thousand words.  The following two
>>lines of simple code should clearly convey to those in the know the
>>power of the setuid bit in UNIX/Linux/xBSD.
>>
>>/bin/chgrp xcdwrite /usr/bin/cdparanoia
>>/bin/chmod 4710 /usr/bin/cdparanoia
>>
>>    
>>
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