Re: cons.saver not suid root

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hi Jakub, Oswald,

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:40, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
> > making the whole thing sort of pointless.

> cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should be setuid to whatever
> user owns /dev/vcsa* devices.  Ideally there is a vcsa user that
> just owns these devices and cons.saver.

Please compare
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2005-January/msg00049.html .

Leonard.

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