[mythtv-users] Fedora 3 and SUID

[Aaron Stewart]

Did you mean chown root:root mythfrontend?

(you list it below as chmod)

Rich Goodin wrote:

>
> Is anyone using Fedora Core 3 and SUID successfully?
>
> When I run mythfrontend as root I get the confirmation that it is 
> able to up the priority of the thread as expected. Then I make  
> mythfrontend SUID root by:
>
> chmod root.root mythfrontend
> chmod a+s mythfrontend
>
> I made sure that selinux is not enabled by:
> - passing selinux=0 at boot
> - removing it from the kernel compile
> - set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/sysconfig/selinux
>
> When I run as a normal user, I still get the warning message from 
> mythfrontend:
> "Realtime priority would require SUID as root"
>
> I've searched the archives with no luck. All the hits just mention 
> the "chmod +s" and the possibility that selinux disables SUID. Any 
> idea what I'm missing?
>
> Rich Goodin
>
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