Am Sonntag 24 Juli 2005 09:19 schrieb Simon Baxter: > > 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? It's exactly the opposite: VDR drops all root privileges, except the capability to set the time. S.
