[vdr] Re: Programm VDR over Web

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

> > The remote login method i intended to be an "additional" feature to
> > interfere directly with vdr. Of course you can still ssh into your
> > machine and start a telnet-session to do so...
>
> I wouldn't want to implement full "login" control etc. into VDR.
> That's something the system already does a lot better.

That's right - but without a firewall the vdr-port is open to everybody!
Even if you just use EPG2timers - during connect someone could possibly hack
vdr and use some obscure trick to obtain vdr-UID-shell access.