[MPlayer-users] suid and Gtk failure

[Miko Rider]

Hi Folks,

I know that setting mplayer suid isn't recommended but since I'm the 
only one that has access
to my machine this isn't a problem. Without suid mplayer doesn't have 
access to the hardware
timer and that's enough to make it fail to play DVDs on my machine.

Gtk apparently has a builtin mechanism that makes it refuse to init 
correctly if your
program is suid or sgid. So the GUI isn't available. (It comes up but 
the menu actions don't
work.  Just gor grin I tried to set the seteuid(getuid()) before gtkinit 
is called but that didn't seem to make any difference.

Anyway, anybody else runs mplayer suid and have a workaround for that 
GUI problem ?

thanks,

-- Miko