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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 /vdr.1 | |
| parent | c65133979fa79f0695a126c0324c4917e51242d8 (diff) | |
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When started as user 'root' VDR now switches to a lesser privileged user id, keeping the capability to set the system time
Diffstat (limited to 'vdr.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | vdr.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the .\" vdr distribution. .\" -.\" $Id: vdr.1 1.16 2005/12/30 15:09:01 kls Exp $ +.\" $Id: vdr.1 1.17 2005/12/31 12:55:16 kls Exp $ .\" .TH vdr 1 "19 Dec 2004" "1.3.18" "Video Disk Recorder" .SH NAME @@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ Call \fIcmd\fR to shutdown the computer. .BI \-t\ tty ,\ \-\-terminal= tty Set the controlling terminal. .TP +.BI \-u\ user ,\ \-\-user= user +Run as user \fIuser\fR in case vdr was started as user 'root'. +Starting vdr as 'root' is necessary if the system time shall +be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons +during normal operation vdr switches to a lesser privileged +user id. By default the user 'vdr' is used. +.TP .BI \-v\ dir ,\ \-\-video= dir Use \fIdir\fR as video directory. The default is \fI/video\fR. |