Bernd Juraschek wrote: > Hello, > > I've problems with my statusleds plugin. If vdr is not running as root > all capabilities are dropped - except the one for setting the system > time. > > My plugin wants to set the keyboard leds with the ioctl KDSETLED on > /dev/console. Unfortunately this ioctl requires one more capability. > > Is there any way to get this capability? Should we extend the plugin > interface with a possibility for the plugins to specify needed caps? > Why not simply document this fact in the installation guide: "The plugin must have write access to /dev/console." This is similar to the dvd or vcd plugin which need read/write access to /dev/dvd resp. /dev/cdrom. On my machine, I added the vdr user to the cdrom group. For /dev/console, this might be a bit trickier: I would have to add vdr to group tty AND give /dev/console rw-permissions for the group, but that should suffice. I don't know much about linux capabilities, but my feeling is, that they are meant for things not represented by devices (which use the simpler file-permissions model). Just my 2 cents, -- Patrick Cernko | mailto:errror@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.errror.org "Wer HTML postet oder gepostetes HTML quotet oder sich gepostetes oder gequotetes HTML beschafft, um es in Verkehr zu bringen, wird geplonkt." (anonym) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20070218/b5db9707/signature-0001.pgp
