[mythtv] 0.16's up on the website.

[Doug Larrick]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:35:48PM -0400, Doug Larrick wrote:
> 
> 
>>Maybe this was on the list already and I missed it... but as the guy who 
>>wrote the code that runs as root... what security issues are you talking 
>>about?
> 
> [snip]
> The right way to do it would be to use POSIX capabilities: when the process
> starts, acquire the capability CAP_SYS_NICE, then relinquish root privileges
> (retaining the ability to use setpriority() when needed).

I can work on this.  Shouldn't be too hard.  Isaac, if you're reading, 
can I use libcap for this (I know you've discouraged additional external 
dependencies in the past)?  Better to use libcap1 or libcap2? (looks 
like more stuff in Debian uses the former.)

-Doug
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