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Re: [TCLUG:20274] User administration...



> Depends on what they need root access for. For example, xcdroast runs
> fine as a normal user, but it isn't very useful since the mkisofs and
> related tools need to be run as root. Of course, I wasn't going to give

Naw, mkisofs doesn't need to be root. I don't quite understand how
cdrecord accesses SCSI devices, I suspect you can chown the right device
in /dev for use by non root users.  But if anything, there's sudo...