How to burn a CD as a user in Linux

Published on July 19th, 2006 in Gentoo, Linux

Many Linux users might have been surprised the first time they found out they needed to burn CDs and DVDs as root. Well, here’s an easy solution how to safely change the permission for cdrecord. Cdrecord is a command-line application which most front-ends use to burn the actual discs. So, to enable all users to access the cdrecord application, simply open up a shell as root and use the following commands to change the permissions:

chmod 4111 /usr/bin/cdrecord
chmod 4111 /usr/bin/cdda2wav

This worked without a glitch on Gentoo, but it should work for most other distributions as well.

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