[NTLUG:Discuss] K#B and SUID

[Kenneth Loafman]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Troubleshooting CD burning operations.  Getting errors as a regular user 
> but not as root.  cdrecord already had 4755 permissions.  k3b and 
> mkisofs had 755 permissions.  Decided to do chmod +s on both of the 
> latter.  When I did k3b wouldn't start, anyone know why?  Have I hurt 
> myself by setting mkisofs to 6755 permissions?

K3b has a setup where it will check permissions and set them correctly.
 Go to menu item Settings / K3b Settings and have it set them for you.
That should do the trick.

My K3b runs fine without being root.  What kind of errors do you get?

...Ken