[mythtv-users] Preemptive Kernel Patch

Monty Walls mwalls at castor.oktax.state.ok.us
Tue Feb 18 20:51:58 UTC 2003


On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:26:06 -0600
Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net> wrote:

> Thus spake Monty Walls:
> > Sure you can, just might not be smart, plus may require some fiddling 
> > with the actual code.  Since the only user is me, and it's
> > not an externally exposed box (inside a firewalled, NATed network), it
> > might be an acceptable risk...
> 
> Actually, many systems disable the ability to use a setuid shell script.
> 

Now for a picture of me eating humble pie, having just verified that my
box does disable setuid shell scripts.

Looks like sudo is the solution for those who don't run myth as root.

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