Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 18:54, Oliver Friedrich wrote: > >>Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> >>>There have been reports from people who want to run >>>VDR as user 'root' and have trouble with access rights >>>when using "-u root". >>> >>>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. >>> >>>Klaus >> >>Hi Klaus, >> >>Thanks for the patch. It solves my problem with the text2skin-plugin, >>that was not able to load a lot of the channel logos or needed fonts if >>they were accessed via a symlink. >> >>Oliver >> > > Hi Oliver, > > A better approach would be to just set the permissions of the files to sane > values as I think running vdr as non-root is a lot better. Propably all *nix-purists will lynch me, but I really think that having elaborate permissions on a STB is rather far fetched. Set_Top_Box does NOT need _any_ of that.
