Re: Please test latest mc-stable snapshot

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 15:11, Thomas Zajic wrote:
> 3. Non-SUID cons.saver
> 
>    When leaving cons.saver non-SUID, mc acts as if a local console login
>    was a "Dumb Terminal" (ie. I have to press Enter after each subshell
>    command, the subshell prompt disappears when pressing Ctrl-O three
>    times in a row, etc.).

>    This does not happen in an xterm, although the tty permissions are
>    the same:

>    Setting cons.saver to be SUID root fixes the problem. Again, this is
>    also not a big problem, but merely a minor annoyance.

cons.saver should *not* be set suid root. You should create a user vcsa,
which owns /dev/vcsa* and suid vcsa cons.saver:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/mc/cons.saver                                 
-rws--x--x  1 vcsa root 7316 Dec  3 19:48 /usr/lib/mc/cons.saver

Leonard.

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