Ludwig Nussel schrieb: > 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... > > > For distributions the only sane default is to ship vdr running as > unprivileged user. It's really helpful if upstream vdr also behaves > this way by default as more people and especially plugin developers > notice if there are permission problems. Permission Problems... it seems you are right with this assumption. I just worked several hours, trying to get bitstreamout to work.... and guess: the user vdr was not allowed do access /dev/audio*. But still, I like the non-root concept... now vdr ist more 'mature'. greets carsten
