Re: how to run mplayer as user

[LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu>]

2005. február 2. 17:44,
Mauro Darida <robert@nonsense.com> 
-> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
> I am having trouble in making mplayer to run as user: it starts only if I
> am root. I read the mplayer faq saying that the answer is to make mplayer
> suid root, which I did:
> # ls -l /usr/bin/mplayer
> -rwsr-sr-x  1 root root 3695112 2004-12-29 17:13 /usr/bin/mplayer
> but it still refuses to start giving the error:
> Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.

Hi!

Programs which uses GTK+ libraries refuses to run with elevated privilages.
Could you write the exact output of mplayer, when it's binary is not setuid?

Daniel

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LeVA