[mdlug] Accessing dvd writer in k3b from a remote login

[Adam Behnke]

Random question, does k3b work locally. Lol. Googling ssh k3b, I found
this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1041856
On Oct 23, 2012 8:09 PM, "R KANNAN" <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I fail to see why allowing 'dd' to be used through a remote login
> would be a security issue. 'ssh' after all is supposed to be secure
> and the user is authenticated. I can write to other file systems
> (provided I have the right permissions to that directories) as a
> remote user why is cd/dvd writer any different.
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> wrote:
> > On Oct 23, 2012, at 5:11 PM, R KANNAN wrote:
> >> I have a blank disk on the drive. But the problem is that K3b was
> >> working fine with a writer device when logged in on the console. I am
> >> having some display issues on this laptop which is why I had to login
> >> from remote with 'ssh -X'.
> >
> > It's entirely likely that the console login (through PAM) sets up
> permissions and devices for the console user to be able to access the CD
> burner in KDE, and you lose that when logging in remotely.  I have no way
> of explaining why you're able to 'dd' to /dev/dvd through a remote
> connection, though, that seems like a security problem if it is the case.
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> >
> >
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