[vdr] Re: Setting time without root privileges?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Steffen Koch wrote:
> 
> Gregoire Favre schrieb:
> >>If you only want to set the date you could do a
> >>chmod 4755 /usr/bin/date
> >>but this *could* turn into a security threat (if someone else
> >>gets access to your vdr box and if there would be a known security
> >>issue with date and... ... )
> > Great, I could make a special group for it, with just me in... I didn't
> > know vdr was calling date ;-))
> I'm not shure whether vdr uses the date command
> 
> @Klaus please confirm this.

VDR uses the stime() system call, as implemented by Robert Schneider.

Klaus
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