> Simon Baxter wrote: >> Can't I just add an entry in sudoers for the date command? Can I >> incorporate a 'sudo date set' into vdr?? > > The settime patch does it this way. It may need several attempts, because > all the user- and process-switching adds some delay to the clock, but it > works. The su implementation is imho a lot cleaner way though. > > See: > > http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Settime-patch > http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Settime-patch > > A patched version for recent builds is here: > > http://urichter.cjb.net/vdr/?h=settime&l=en If I'm understanding the su correctly, and vdr must be run as root but the date set will be done by another user, I can't see the point! If you're running vdr as root you're already running an 'untrusted' application with full machine rights. Why then switch to another user just for the date set?
