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

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>]

Patrick Cernko wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb am 24.10.2003 12:13:
> > Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> >>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'?
> >
> 
> maybe one advantage could be, that without using su, you can avoid some
> problems with quoting, which seems to be frequent ones.

Exactly. This way no additional shell is involved. I also don't want
to trigger any pam actions by using su.

cu
Ludwig

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