On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:53:18 +0100 Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hallo, > Stephan Seitz hat gesagt: // Stephan Seitz wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:20:45PM +0000, Myk wrote: > > ># sudo alsaplayer -r > > > > > >will do the trick. You'll need to allow passwordless sudo-ing for > > >any users (set in /etc/sudoers, check the man page for sudo) > > > > Bad idea. With this, alsaplayer runs as root. So you can easily read > > > > any file (like /etc/shadow) or worse, you can overwrite any file > > with your playlist. I guess I trust myself too much :) More seriously, I should have put a big fat warning in that message... [...] > But with > sudo the whole software runs basically as root all the time and can't > even drop this priviledge. Bad kitty. Interesting. I didn't know that. - Myk ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
