I have followed the xcdroast.nonroot file to the letter and I can't burn without being root.

Any ideas, any other burner program to try that gives user permission to burn a cd?

gtoaster works fine as non-root

maybe yout just need to set the burner perms properly, presumably with suid set

Well the problem turned out to be something really stupid.


I could not get xcdroast or gtoaster to work.

After chmoding and chowning all over the place it turned out to be...

the commands were links in the /usr/bin/ directory that were piping thru the consolehelper which would always bring up the root login dialog :-)

running the commands would find the links first because /usr/bin/xcdroast was in the path before /usr/sbin/xcdroast.

the link for /usr/bin/groaster was a link piped through to /usr/bin/gtoaster-root.

Hi,

I an running into similar problem: not able to run xcdroast as non -root user. I have 0.98alpha8 version. Could you please give me tips on it?

Thanks

I don't have that version or know what distro you have which may make a difference.


First look at the readme file by searching for README.nonroot


locate README.nonroot


Follow the readme and you should be ok.


The problem I ran into a few years ago when this post was started is still a problem.

If you have Redhat or maybe even some other distro you need to check that you are executing the proper file.

On Redhat it's going to be /usr/sbin/xcdroast. By default /usr/bin/xcdroast will be in the path statement so that file needs to be replaced with a link to the correct file or mv the file.
check it with this command

ls -l /usr/bin/xcdroast
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 6 18:15 /usr/bin/xcdroast -> consolehelper


if you have this link to console helper you need to change it like this.

rm /usr/bin/xcdroast
ln -s /usr/bin/xcdroast /usr/sbin/xcdroast

or

cp /usr/sbin/xcdroast /usr/bin/xcdroast

or

mv /usr/sbin/xcdroast /usr/bin/xcdroaast


Then you can follow the instructions in the readme for your release

The newest version of x-cd-roast allows you to activate the non-root mode right from the gui, but you have to start it as root before you can configure it for other users. Actually, the one before this allowed you to do the same thing also, its so much easier than manually chmodding all over the place.

That's true only for the old versions,

However the current version I have does not appear to support this method of allowing users.


(Version: 0.98alpha13)


what the author says


Earlier version of X-CD-Roast needed root permissions to access the partition stuff. But because I've thrown this out there is no reason for root in the GUI. This is much safer and also disabled the need for a non-root mode. X-CD-Roast is automatically safe to be run by any user. This is possible because only the helper application will get suid-root to get access to the scsi-hardware. The tools itself will drop their root permissions as fast as possible to make it very hard to exploit them (buffer-overrun or stuff like that). Any security issues will be taken care of in the tools itself. Should be very hard to do any harm with them.

See the file README.nonroot for details.

I have 0.98alpha14 and it has the non-root user option.

Go into setup then click on users tab and look at the bottom and there should be a button "Change Non-Root configuration" from there you can select to activate non-root mode.

<edit> You have to be root to do this.

I've got alpha version 15 of xcdroast and Red Hat Enterprise 3 WS kernel: . E2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp everything works fine if I run xcdroast as root, but if I try as a normal user I don't have permissions. I can run xcdroast but the permissions problems start when I try to access the CD burner itself. I've seen other posts that say this is a change in the newer kernels not in xcdroast, but I was wondering if someone knew of a workaround to get non-root users the ability to burn DVDs again. The odd thing is non-root users can burn CDs without a problem via the Nautilis CD burner. Thanks for any and all help.


-NifflerX

please don't drag up old threads. i think 14 months is long enough to have just started a new thread...

So does that mean you would like me to start a brand new thread with the same topic and questions as this one? I'm happy to do it I just thought that starting a new thread when one already existed was frowned upon.


-NifflerX