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| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTORS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vdr.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS index 629bdceb..11a62eb1 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -1823,3 +1823,6 @@ Jurij Retzlaff <jurij@topofweb.de> Richard Lithvall <richard@lithvall.se> for adding a tolerance for symbol rate values that are off by one + +Tobias Grimm <listaccount@e-tobi.net> + for suggesting to use geteuid() to check whether VDR is running as user 'root' @@ -4515,3 +4515,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History Richard Lithvall). - Added VBITeletextDescriptorTag, TeletextDescriptorTag, LocalTimeOffsetDescriptorTag and PremiereContentTransmissionDescriptor to 'libsi' (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). +- Using geteuid() to check whether VDR is running as user 'root' (suggested by + Tobias Grimm). @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ * * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr * - * $Id: vdr.c 1.254 2006/04/09 12:22:46 kls Exp $ + * $Id: vdr.c 1.255 2006/04/14 11:01:18 kls Exp $ */ #include <getopt.h> @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) // Set user id in case we were started as root: - if (VdrUser && getuid() == 0) { + if (VdrUser && geteuid() == 0) { StartedAsRoot = true; if (strcmp(VdrUser, "root")) { if (!SetKeepCaps(true)) |