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Dropped the default vdr user

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Klaus Schmidinger
2006-01-13 16:16:32 +01:00
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@@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ Setting the system time:
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If you want VDR to set the system time according to the data received
from the transponder, you need to start VDR as user 'root'. VDR will
then only keep the capability to set the system time, and set its
user id to a lesser privileged one ('vdr' by default, can be set
to a different value with the '-u' option).
from the transponder, you need to start VDR as user 'root'. For security
reasons you should then use the '-u' option to define a lesser privileged
user id under which VDR should actually run. It will then only keep the
capability to set the system time, and set its user id to the given one.
You also need to enable the "EPG/Set system time" option in VDR's
Setup menu, and select a transponder from which you want to receive
the time in "Use time from transponder". Make sure you select a transponder