[vdr] Re: Setting time without root privileges?

["Robert Schneider" <Robert.Schneider@de.ibm.com>]

When I implemented this years ago, I was using a system call to set the 
time I was not using the external date command, but Klaus may have changed 
that, I have no sources here to confirm.



Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>
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03.07.2002 16:21
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Gregoire Favre schrieb:
>>If you only want to set the date you could do a
>>chmod 4755 /usr/bin/date
>>but this *could* turn into a security threat (if someone else 
>>gets access to your vdr box and if there would be a known security 
>>issue with date and... ... )
> Great, I could make a special group for it, with just me in... I didn't
> know vdr was calling date ;-))
I'm not shure whether vdr uses the date command

@Klaus please confirm this.