[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] adjusting nice level from config/command line

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:39:03PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> If you're going to suid mplayer, you might as well just blank out
> root's password, or chmod +s *. Getting root from a suid mplayer is a
> completely trivial task.
> 
> Anyway, for your particular situation, you could perhaps use sudo or
> something.

Well, he was going down the right road, just never got to the final
destination.  MPlayer could be suid root, but _the_first_thing_
MPlayer should do it set the (kernel) "capabilities" that it needs to
do it's job and then immediately shed all priviledge and continue on
doing what MPlayer does currently.

b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell
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