[mythtv] unprivileged user?
Nathan Poznick
poznick at conwaycorp.net
Mon Aug 11 21:53:04 EDT 2003
Thus spake Chris Petersen:
> call me a security nut, but wouldn't it be a good idea for myth to
> chuser on startup to something of its own? Would prevent some nasty
> system problems for those of us who've been running myth as root via
> sysV startup scripts - that way, myth couldn't write to the reserved
> file system blocks and overload the machine.
>
> Anyway, I'm going to at least go modify my sysV script for now. But
> it'd be cool if myth did this on its own.
The Debian packages are already set up to run everything as the mythtv
user.
--
Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net>
There is no eloquence without a man behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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