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authorKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2005-12-31 13:30:11 +0100
committerKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2005-12-31 13:30:11 +0100
commit89df44971574415bd51f4eb01f8e085fb6266dc1 (patch)
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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
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@@ -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.