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| author | Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de> | 2005-12-31 13:30:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de> | 2005-12-31 13:30:11 +0100 |
| commit | 89df44971574415bd51f4eb01f8e085fb6266dc1 (patch) | |
| tree | de77f5c86cb1cca0942038e98a945539479bc843 /HISTORY | |
| parent | c65133979fa79f0695a126c0324c4917e51242d8 (diff) | |
| download | vdr-89df44971574415bd51f4eb01f8e085fb6266dc1.tar.gz vdr-89df44971574415bd51f4eb01f8e085fb6266dc1.tar.bz2 | |
When started as user 'root' VDR now switches to a lesser privileged user id, keeping the capability to set the system time
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@@ -3963,7 +3963,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History commands may now be executed at any time, and the message will be displayed (no more "pending message"). -2005-12-30: Version 1.3.38 +2005-12-31: Version 1.3.38 - Fixed handling second audio and Dolby Digital PIDs for encrypted channels (was broken in version 1.3.37). @@ -4040,3 +4040,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History - Updated the Greek OSD texts (thanks to Dimitrios Dimitrakos). - Changed all "illegal" to "invalid" in error messages (there's nothing "illegal" in VDR ;-). +- When started as user 'root' VDR now switches to a lesser privileged user id, + keeping the capability to set the system time (based on a patch from Ludwig + Nussel). By default the user id 'vdr' is used, which can be changed through + the new command line option '-u'. Note that for security reasons VDR will no + longer run as user 'root' (unless you explicitly start it with '-u root', + but this is not recommended!). The 'runvdr' script has been changed to + use the '-u' option. |