[mythtv-users] Running as root

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:37:57PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> And exactly how does one set the SUID bit on a file? Would this be chmod 
> +s mythfrontend or chmod 7777 mythfrontend?
> 
> As usual the man page, while perfectly correct is perfectly opaque.

chmod u+s mythfrontend

chmod 7777 would set not only suid, but also sgid and the sticky bit.
And you probably don't want to be making mythfrontend world-writable if
it's anywhere near a network, either, especially if it's suid root.
chmod 4755 or 4750 (if the mythtv user is a member of the group that
owns it) would be reasonably sane, though.  (4755 = rwsr-xr-x; 4750 =
rwsr-x---)

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