[vdr] Re: Shutdown when running vdr as non-root user...

[Andreas Breitenbach <lists@breitenbach-sc.de>]

On Monday 02 August 2004 18:05, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> On 02.08.2004 16:57, Andreas Breitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > - create a new group for shutdown users (sdusers)
> > - add vdr user to shutdown users
> > - change owner of script: chown root.sdusers shutdown.sh
> > - set sticky bit to shutdown script: chmod 4750 shutdown.sh
>
> It's not called "sticky" it's called "suid". (set-uid)
>
> And it does NOT work fuer Shell-Scripts.

Thanks for the info, didn't know that. sudo is saver anyway.

Cheers,
Andreas