Udo Richter wrote: > 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... > > Cheers, > > Udo Well, due to all the hassle with the GRAB security advisory I thought it might be a good idea to not let VDR run as root unless the user explicitly requests it. However, I do tend to share your opinion, so if nobody disagrees I'll make it so that VDR always runs under the user id it was started with, unless the '-u' option is given (and, of course, it was started as root, otherwise it can't change its user id anyway). Klaus
