[mythtv-users] sudo nice --5 xine Permissions?

Jon Boehm boehm100 at comcast.net
Mon Aug 20 20:28:27 UTC 2007


That stinks.  I need to wrap the script in an executable??  I've no idea 
how to do that.

Jon

MythTV wrote:
> Jon Boehm wrote:
>> Hmm,  I'm not getting something.
>>
>> me at machine:/usr/local/bin$ ls -l dvdplayer-launcher.sh
>> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 1578 2007-08-19 21:02 dvdplayer-launcher.sh
>>
>> The group and owner are both root and I did a chmod +s on the script. 
>> Still xine refuses to launch from the myth ui.  Am I misunderstanding 
>> something fundamental?
>>
>>   
> 
>  From the wikipedia article referenced:
> 
> Due to the increased likelihood of security flaws, many operating 
> systems ignore the setuid attribute when applied to executable shell 
> scripts.
> 
> 
> 
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