[MPlayer-users] CVS-MPlayer suid-root not working

[pl]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:14:41PM +0100, Ruediger Otte wrote:

> the latest cvs-snapshot of MPlayer can only execute the win32-codecs
> when started as root.

Hmmm... not here.  Can you access them as a plain user ? (files
permission is 0644 and their path is at least in 0755).

> I solved the same problem with MPlayer 0.50 by
> setting the suid-bit on Mplayer binary. But CVS-MPlayer drops the root
> priviledges immediately, so I cannot view any avis as user.
> 
> The snapshot is dated 20011224.

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Best regards,
  pl