[vdr] Re: non-root rights

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 17 Apr 2003 mailinglists@peess.de wrote:

> root@streamer:~# su - media
> media@streamer:~$ ls -las /dev/dvb/
> total 0
>    0 drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 .
>    0 drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 ..
>    0 drw-rw----    1 media    media           0 Jan  1  1970 adapter0
> media@streamer:~$ ls -las /dev/dvb/adapter0/
> ls: /dev/dvb/adapter0/..: Permission denied
[...]

Directories must have x-permission if someone wants to enter or
list them.

For the directories rwxr-xr-x should be enough, while the device
nodes should be rw-rw-r--. It's enough for them to be root.media
too (if the vdr user is member of group media).

-- 
Stefan Huelswitt
huels@iname.com  | http://home.pages.de/~nathan


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