[mythtv-users] Stepmania + MythTV = brilliant, but--

[Douglas Wagner]

Ok, so now I have to ask, is there a suggestion in here TO run mythtv as
root so that something gets correct priority?

I don't remember anything in any installation documents I came across
mentioning SUID root, but I could I guess be wrong.

--Douglas Wagner

On 5/14/06, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> >It may be a moot point since I've got it working with your suggestion
> above,
> >but if I shouldn't be running mythfrontend setuid root, please let me
> know.
>
> Aside from security concerns there isn't really any reason not to use
> setuid
> root, but you should realize that running setuid-root is really the same
> as
> running it as root (i.e. it is equivalent to the root user launching it,
> and
> that's pretty much the reason for the security concerns).
> You may have thought that you were 'not exactly' running mythfrontend as
> root, but you really were.
>
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