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

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

There have been reports from people who want to run VDR as user 'root' and have trouble with access rights when using "-u root".

Yes, the direct access to the parallel port was denied so i had to use a slower mechanism in the graphlcd-plugin which is controling LCD-display.

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.

Thanks, this is now back to normal. I prefer to run vdr as root (this is my home and i'm controlling the machines :) Other might like to do it another way, so go forward.

Klaus

Thanks !

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