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Re: x11amp playlist bug


From: aheitner () TJHSST EDU (Ari Heitner)
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:37:30 -0600


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
aheitner () tjhsst edu



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