Hallo everybody,
By now I ran vdr as root. I wanted to change that but never did...
When the setuid-stuff was introduced I now managed to do so. Since I beleive some people use Debian (like me) I will shortly describe what has to be done to eliminate access problems. I don not use LIRC so there will be no hints about that.
1. Create group vdr
groupadd vdr
2. Create user vdr (no shell, home directroy will be video dir)
useradd -s /bin/false -d /home/recordings -g vdr
3. Add user vdr to other groups if necessary (edit /etc/group)
for DVD-access => disc
4. Chown your video-dir
chown vdr.root /home/recording -R
5. Modify DVB-devices
chown root.vdr /dev/dvb -R
6. Modify input-dev (for remote control)
chown root.vdr /dev/input/event*
7. Modify /proc/av7110_ir (Nexus remote-control) if you do not use a NEXUS-S with remote control you will probably have to modify something else
chown root.vdr /proc/av7110_ir chmod 661 /proc/av7110_ir
8. Modify VDR-configuration dir
by now vdr itself will start as long as the config was world readable. The text2skin caused a crash. To manage that I had to give write access to plugins/text2skin and themes in the configuration dir.
chown root.vdr /etc/vdr -R chmod 775 /etc/vdr/themes -R chmod 775 /etc/vdr/plugins/text2skin -R
Regards Peter