Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] MPlayerplug-in bug

[Kevin D. <kde...@ya...>]

Alex,

Good catch... I knew that putting logs in /tmp was not a great idea, but =
did=20
not consider this case as I don't run anything other than sysadmin tools =
as=20
root.

I'll finish up on the config file/log file work.

Kevin


On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:43, Alex Bernson wrote:
> Hi, I'd just like to point out a not so serious bug in mplayerplug-in.
> If you run your browser as root (not usually a good idea, but it
> happens) and while browsing as root you view a video, the log files in
> /tmp have root as their owner.  As it should be.  However, if you then
> close your browser and open it as a normal user, when the plugin tries
> to initialize it will crash the browser.  This is because it is trying
> to erase/write to the log files that it does not have privileges to
> access.  Simply rm'ing the files as root and then running the browser a=
s
> a normal user solves the problem but it's a hassle.  This isn't a huge
> deal, but it's something to be aware of.
> --Alex
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