[TESTING] Kodi v19 builds for Vero 4K / 4K +

[dillthedog]

@pkscout

My feeling (but without a deeper understanding of OSMC) is that adding the OSMC user to the root group would be a Really Bad Idea.

The issue is passwordless sudo. This was discussed way back in 2016. (I don’t necessarily agree with all the reasoning.)

Removing need for passwordless sudo for OSMC user

Anything which allows unlimited passwordless privilege escalation for a user with a valid shell is a major security hole. It is for this very reason that software like Apache starts as root and then downgrades itself to a user with no shell defined. Kodi really ought to work in the same way but that isn’t something OSMC can control, I know. But limiting passwordless privilege escalation to only the commands required would improve the situation in the interim. I’m intrigued by your last line @…