Does K3b no longer need to use burning group?
 

Hi all,

Just installed 13.0 and was kind of surprised that I did not have to set up a burning group to give regular users burning rights. Is this something new with the new version? I always had to do it before in previous versions or the burn would fail due to lack of privileges.

This is also the first time I've used HAL with Slackware, if that makes any difference.

I never have had to set up a separate burning group. Did you include your regular users in the cdrom group?

I've burned loads of CDs and DVDs in 12.2 with K3b and never been in a "burning" group.

I think if you hit the up arrow during the install when you add a user, it adds you to all the groups you need. In Arch Linux I add myself to the optical group, I think in Slackware it is CDROM??

Yeah, in Slackware cdrom is one of the default groups every one is put in when using adduser: users, audio, video, cdrom, plugdev. Up arrow gives the option to add more groups.

You only need a "burning" group if you setup your cdrdao to make use of it for making burning rights exclusive to that group.

The group name really is not important. I know that K3B in KDE 3.5 will help you set this up through the GUI if desired.

Thanks for the replies.

Maybe I was misleading myself into thinking that I ever needed to use the burning group. In KDE 3.5 I just always set it up through the GUI as shadowsnipes mentions. In 4.2 that option seems to have changed as the k3bsetup has been moved from the regular k3b menu to the system settings menu. It appears that k3bsetup has to be run from the command line now if you want to use it with root access to change anything.

I never did add myself to the cdrom or plugdev groups in 12.2, because I didn't use HAL. Maybe that's why I couldn't burn without using the burning group? Or maybe I could and just never tried :^)