Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
On Monday 09 January 2006 18:54, Oliver Friedrich wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
There have been reports from people who want to run VDR as user 'root' and have trouble with access rights when using "-u root".
The attached patch simply skips all the SetCaps() and SetUser() stuff when VDR is started as 'root' and the option "-u root" has been given. This should then behave just like older versions.
Klaus
Hi Klaus,
Thanks for the patch. It solves my problem with the text2skin-plugin, that was not able to load a lot of the channel logos or needed fonts if they were accessed via a symlink.
Oliver
Hi Oliver,
A better approach would be to just set the permissions of the files to sane values as I think running vdr as non-root is a lot better.
Propably all *nix-purists will lynch me, but I really think that having elaborate permissions on a STB is rather far fetched. Set_Top_Box does NOT need _any_ of that.