[mythtv-users] Bad advice from Mythfrontend -- running with SUID

[Michael J. Lynch]

Should work as with the "chmod a+s" you used.  Works fine
on FC1 and FC2.  Is owner of /usr/bin/mythfrontend "root"?

Either way, if you can't get SUID to work, don't worry about
it, mythfrontend will work just fine.


Joe Barnhart wrote:

>--- "Michael J. Lynch" <mlynch at gcom.com> wrote:
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>>Try "chmod a+x /usr/bin/mythfrontend".  Note --
>>replace "u" with "a".  
>>Works fine for me.
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>I was trying to give mythfrontend SUID privilege. From
>my limited understanding of Linux, this command will
>make the program executable.  It is executing just
>fine -- the only problem is that it hangs the system
>hard when I use either "chmod a+s" or "chmod u+s" to
>allow it to start threads with SUID.
>
>Am I missing something?
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