Ok, so now I have to ask, is there a suggestion in here TO run mythtv as root so that something gets correct priority?<br><br>I don't remember anything in any installation documents I came across mentioning SUID root, but I could I guess be wrong.
<br><br>--Douglas Wagner<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marco Nelissen</b> <<a href="mailto:marcone@xs4all.nl">marcone@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>It may be a moot point since I've got it working with your suggestion above,<br>>but if I shouldn't be running mythfrontend setuid root, please let me know.<br><br>Aside from security concerns there isn't really any reason not to use setuid
<br>root, but you should realize that running setuid-root is really the same as<br>running it as root (i.e. it is equivalent to the root user launching it, and<br>that's pretty much the reason for the security concerns).<br>
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