> Come to think of it, I would first consider creating a 'cctv' user that owns > the cameras and storage directories, and files and only do anything as root > if absolutely necessary. >
You can run 'sudo -g [group] ...', so no need to go near root. > > Running any kind of script sudo'd is a bad idea, it's very very hard > (in many cases impossible) to do securely. Root permissions in general > should only be used for what they're needed for and nothing else (that > means getting the permission, doing the stuff that needs to be done as > root, and then returning back to normal privs), anything else is just > asking for trouble. > If you can do what you need to do with a dedicated group for the task/program (as above) then hopefully this would not be such an insecure approach? Better than asking for the admin. login possibly also? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
