[mythtv-users] SUID Root

[Khanh Tran]

Your X server is not running as root when you use sudo.  You'd have to
start the X server as root, then run mythfrontend...

-Khanh



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mario L
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:52 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] SUID Root

..... and here i have been going tried running as different users, with
tons of different permissions.  Is there a way to run it with sudo then?

When I try, I get:

supermario at portablemario ~ $ sudo mythfrontend
mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:18:46 +1030, Matthew Phillips <mythtv at mattp.name>
wrote:
> On 26/03/2005, at 12:03 PM, Mario L wrote:
> 
> > I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't 
> > seem to have much luck.
> > I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still

> > when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache 
> > request and I still see it using usleep in the term
> 
> Yeah, I spent some time trying to fix that too. Only to find out that 
> the real-time feature has been disabled in 0.17 due to it causing 
> instability on some boxes. The checkbox is still there though, just to

> keep you confused :/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matthew.
> 
> 
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