-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Udo Richter schrieb: > 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". >> >> 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. > > > Wouldn't it be a lot more natural and intuitive if the default for -u > would be not to switch users at all? It wouldn't change the (previous) > default behavior and it doesn't use two hard-coded user names (vdr and > root). Specifying -u root to disable switching is at least strange... > I think this would be the best way, too. At first i was realy irritated as my vdr starts over and over again, because i doesnt know, the the new '-u' paramater was present (and not optional). Oliver -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDwsssJL9YbV++5+wRAhoMAJ94gxkeoq876/PncPODF9UbAJJWeACfQW/r mKGb1gsYTGQj/vosm+MfbPg= =XnxU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
