[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Frame stepping (i.e. seeking while paused)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:31:35PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:07, Shachar Raindel wrote:
> > Well,
> >   For realtime one needs a # account on the machine that runs mplayer.
> 
> One should also look into making mplayer drop root privs if started 
> suid, once it doesn't need root privs anymore, if that is at all 
> possible.

No, it's basically impossible to make it secure. Remember it has to
have root privs to open the vo for some stupid vo's. The solution is
not to make mplayer suid at all.

Rich