[MPlayer-users] can anyone play the Oblivion trailer?

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:09:36PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:55:21 -0400
> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > suid root mplayer is EXACTLY THE SAME as
> > suid-root shell: it means everyone (including the cracker who breaks
> > into some shitty useless running-as-uid-nobody service you happen to
> > have enabled) is root.
> 
> Unless you set the permissions correctly.  eg:
> 
> chgrp suid /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> chmod 4550 /usr/local/bin/mplayer

Then everyone in group suid is the same as root. Why even bother
having a user account?

Rich