Re: [vdr] VDR 1.3.38 and "-u root"

Ludwig Nussel wrote:

For distributions the only sane default is to ship vdr running as unprivileged user. It's really helpful if upstream vdr also behaves this way by default as more people and especially plugin developers notice if there are permission problems.

Distributions usually ship with their own startup scripts, so they're free to always use -u. And even if an user starts the vdr process manually, its usually from a non-root account, or?

(btw. my vdr has always been running unprivileged, and I've used the su patch before)

What about throwing a warning to console if vdr runs as root and no -u is specified?

Cheers,

Udo