Re: x11amp playlist bug

From: Ari Heitner (aheitnerat_private)
Date: Sat Feb 28 1998 - 15:37:30 PST

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> hi,
>
>
> x11 audio mpeg player (x11amp) version 0.65, when installed setuid root
> (as suggested by the README file), creates playlist files in ~/.x11amp
> while making 'root' the owner of these plaintext files (instead of the

I installed x11amp w/o making it setuid, it's perms are
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       623456 Feb 23 13:33 x11amp*
it works very nicely.  I don't know why the x11amp people would recommend
setuiding it to root, except that this may avoid access problems writing
to /dev/dsp.

Ari Heitner
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