Bernd Juraschek wrote:
Hello,
I've problems with my statusleds plugin. If vdr is not running as root
all capabilities are dropped - except the one for setting the system
time.
My plugin wants to set the keyboard leds with the ioctl KDSETLED on
/dev/console. Unfortunately this ioctl
Why not simply document this fact in the installation guide:
The plugin must have write access to /dev/console.
This is similar to the dvd or vcd plugin which need read/write access to
/dev/dvd resp. /dev/cdrom.
Hmm - this sounds like a good idea ...
On my machine, I added the vdr user to
Bernd Juraschek wrote:
I don't know much about linux capabilities, but my feeling is, that they
are meant for things not represented by devices (which use the simpler
file-permissions model).
On my system /dev/console has r/w access for anyone but this is not
sufficient.
Damn. so much
