Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > 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... > [...] > 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). I vote for automatically using user vdr when started as root to promote the unprivileged user mode and to emphasize that using root is not recommended. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/
