From 89df44971574415bd51f4eb01f8e085fb6266dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:30:11 +0100 Subject: When started as user 'root' VDR now switches to a lesser privileged user id, keeping the capability to set the system time --- HISTORY | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'HISTORY') diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 1ee135d3..82ce33e0 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3