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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:59:54PM +0200, Wojtek Kaniewski wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2002, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > and what about running "nice -19 mplayer" from desktop manager's shortcut?
> 
> 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.

Anyway, for your particular situation, you could perhaps use sudo or
something.

Rich