On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:06 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > Just wondering... > > When I write a cd at the prompt using cdrecord, I have to be root, or sodo > cdrecord. When writing the cd from nautilus (as user), by drag-and-drop, > I'm not being asked for any root password, or anything. Out of curiosity, > what does nautilus do behind the scenes to write the cd? > > > It has to do with pam. You should be able to use cdrecord from the cli if you are the first user logged into the console - I usually don't because my burner is on a headless machine where I can't log directly - but that certainly was the difference in the past. cat /var/run/console/console.lock That user should (at least in the past) be able to use cdrecord directly.
