[Nix-dev] setuid wrappers (fuse/sshfs)

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 03/01/12 23:53, Mathijs Kwik wrote:

> I noticed setuid-wrappers.nix contained cdrdao, wodim and growisofs,
> all cd/dvd burning tools.
> Is there a reason for this? on Arch they aren't.
> it seems udev + consolekit take care of setting an RW acl on /dev/sr0
> for the user that's logged in/active on the console. Furthermore,
> group "cdrom" has write access to that device.

If I remember correctly, it's to allow them to get realtime priority.

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