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

Wojtek Kaniewski wojtekka at bydg.pdi.net
Mon May 27 11:50:57 CEST 2002


On Sun, 26 May 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > i'd have to suid nice as well. but okay, let's just forget it ;)
> 
> 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.

so what? i'm the only user of my workstation. no one else has an account
here. no one else has physical access to the box. no one can log in from
outside. so why should i bother about getting root from suid mplayer?

regards,
wojtek




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