Re: x11amp playlist bug

> 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_at_tjhsst.edu
Received on Mar 02 1998