[mythtv-users] Autologin for root

[Mike Wood]

yeah I could try that as well.  I haven't worried to much about it 
really...since, like you said, the chances of having a security issue 
are slim.

Lance Tost wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Mike Wood wrote:
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>>I'll jump in here to say that I need to log on as root because I can't 
>>get hardware decoding to work on my EPIA unless I run mythfrontend as 
>>root.  Anything else and as soon as I go to watch TV mythfrontend 
>>crashes.  I'd absolutely love to fix that, but in the mean time, I may 
>>try this out as a compromise.
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>You could set mythfrontend suid root, couldn't you?  That would probably 
>be a little better than auto-login... of course, the chance of someone 
>breaking into your house to hack into your mythtv box is probably pretty 
>slim, eh?
>
>-- Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
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