[mythtv-users] MythTV refuses to run SUID

[Dave Hofstra]

I have also battled this problem in suse 9.3.  Many Fedora core people
have also complained about it.  The only solution I found was as root
type 'visudo'.  This is a special (error checking) instance of vi that
allows editing of the sudo file.  The following text helped me run
mythfrontend with realtime priority.

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
lisadaveh       ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mythfrontend

Hope that helps...

Dave Hofstra


On 8/4/05, Louie Ilievski <loudawg at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have been trying to get MythTV to run SUID for a couple days now but it
> simply refuses to.  The log always shows
> 
> 2005-08-04 17:38:33.495 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
> 
> I've always had this working in the past, and I've done nothing different with
> this installation with the exception of having a slightly more up-to-date
> version of MythTV, and probably some updated system packages.  I am running
> SVN R6990 on Gentoo, with kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (I just tried
> 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 because I thought that's what I had last time with this
> machine, but I get the same results).
> 
> I've tried numerous variations of chmod even though I know the way I've always
> done it is right....these include:
> 
> chmod +s /usr/bin/mythfrontend /usr/bin/mythtv
> chmod u+s /usr/bin/mythfrontend /usr/bin/mythtv
> chmod a+s /usr/bin/mythfrontend /usr/bin/mythtv
> chmod 4755 /usr/bin/mythfrontend /usr/bin/mythtv
> 
> The permissions do get set right, as I can see them with "ls".
> 
> Is there anything else in the system that could possibly have an effect on the
> SUID bit?  Is this possibly a MythTV bug that I should file?
> 
> Looking through the archives I noticed that others have had this problem in
> the past, but have come up with no solution other than workarounds like
> running mythfrontend as root, renicing it, or running it using sudo.  One
> mentioned removing the line in mythfrontend.cpp that says "setuid(getuid())",
> but this is an unacceptable hack in my opinion, if it even actually works,
> and should be treated as a bug.  I also saw someone mention that the feature
> was disabled entirely in .17, but I don't believe this because it worked fine
> fairly recently.  Finally, I saw a post saying some newer distros/kernels
> disallow SUID or something, like RedHat with it's SELinux stuff.  I have no
> SELinux kernel or anything related to it installed on this system.
> 
> I'm out of ideas.  Any help?
> 
> ~Lou
> 
> ~Lou
> 
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