[vdr] Re: [Bug or Feature?] - wrong owner of recording dirs.

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:56:35PM +0200, DOm wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> i don't know if it is a bug or a desired behaviour, but on my system vdr
> creates recording dirs with owner "root" even if it was launched by
> another user. I noted this on a software only setup
> (softdevice+streamdev) on witch i lauch vdr without superuser
> permissions and have a local VIDEODIR in the normal-user home directory.

This is impossibel.

the vdr-binary must have change-uid set

ls -l vdr
-rwx......
   ^ If here is an "s" then the programs runs with the privileges of the owner of the binary. Seems to be root.

Cure:
chmod 755 vdr



Bis denn

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