[mythtv] 0.16's up on the website.

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Sun Sep 12 03:30:10 EDT 2004


On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 04:52:57PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:36:53AM +1000, Mark Spieth wrote:
> 
> > did you update the installation so that mythtv and mythfrontend are suid
> > root to make use of the new scheduling?
> 
> No, I intentionally did not do this because it results in an insecure
> configuration by default.  Users who wish to have it setuid in spite of this
> can use dpkg-statoverride to do so:
> 
> dpkg-statoverride --update --add root mythtv 4754 /usr/bin/mythfrontend
> 
> should do the trick.

Would you consider a debconf question?

(I prefer debconf minimalism, so I'm not sure I should even ask.)

Hamish
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