[vdr] Re: PATCH: run vdr as non-root user

[Patrick Cernko <errror@ps.uni-sb.de>]

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Klaus Schmidinger schrieb am 24.10.2003 12:13:
> Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Attached patch enables vdr to switch to a different user (and
>>optionally group) itself, without help of su, sudo etc.
>
>
> What exactly is the advantage of this, compared to using 'su'?
>

Hi Klaus,

maybe one advantage could be, that without using su, you can avoid some
problems with quoting, which seems to be frequent ones.

BTW: If someone still has problems with right quoting vdr's cmdline
parameters, maybe this can help:
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~uwe/lehre/unixffb/quoting-guide.html

CU/all
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