[mythtv-users] Autologin for root

[Lance Tost]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Mike Wood wrote:
> I'll jump in here to say that I need to log on as root because I can't 
> get hardware decoding to work on my EPIA unless I run mythfrontend as 
> root.  Anything else and as soon as I go to watch TV mythfrontend 
> crashes.  I'd absolutely love to fix that, but in the mean time, I may 
> try this out as a compromise.

You could set mythfrontend suid root, couldn't you?  That would probably 
be a little better than auto-login... of course, the chance of someone 
breaking into your house to hack into your mythtv box is probably pretty 
slim, eh?

-- Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>