[luau] Duplicating Music CD

[W. Wayne Liauh]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:

> 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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