From 89df44971574415bd51f4eb01f8e085fb6266dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>
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

---
 vdr.1 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'vdr.1')

diff --git a/vdr.1 b/vdr.1
index 54deb51d..43c15dc9 100644
--- a/vdr.1
+++ b/vdr.1
@@ -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.
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