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- cdparanoia for Debian
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- There have been bugs filed in the past with respect to running cdparanoia as a
- normal user, particularly with ide-scsi emulation (which is highly recommended -
- see the FAQ). The basic issues are that normal users can't generally access
- /dev/scd* or /dev/sg* and therefore can't run cdparanoia. The solution is to add
- users to a group like "audio" and change those devices to mode 660, owned by
- group "audio". You could of course make a special group just for this purpose if
- none of the existing ones seem correct.
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- Other past suggestions have been made to install cdparanoia as suid root. This
- is generally seen as a bad idea because the mapping of the sg* devices is
- dynamic, and can change based on several factors. In theory, cdparanoia
- accessing raw SCSI devices as root is not a great idea. I'm certainly open to
- other suggestions, so please send them to me if you have any good ideas.
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- Dale E. Martin <dmartin@debian.org>, Wed, 10 Jan 2000 19:01:53 -0400
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