Re: Lastest Kernel update breaks k3b

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Hi Per,

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:58, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> Yes, it's likely the SCSI command filtering that got stuck into 2.6.8
> (there are a couple of threads about this on LKML) in order to prevent
> ordinary users (i.e. without CAP_SYS_RAWIO) from sending potentially
> dangerous commands to drives (e.g. firmware updates). The list of
> allowed commands apparently isn't long enough to let ordinary users
> write CDs.

> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0091.html

There also seems to be another issue with writing audio CDs in 2.6.8:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3659
. Note that according to the comments near the bottom the mentioned
patch does *not* entirely fix the problem...

Leonard.

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