Re: cons.saver not suid root

[Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek rudy mif pg gda pl>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > moin,
> >
> > for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
> > making the whole thing sort of pointless.
> > the attached patch makes it useful for me.
> > comments?
>
> 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.

BTW: in case Linux now I don' see cons.saver usage.

$ strace -o out mc; grep cons.saver out

with few times ctrl-o during strace show nothing (?).

Q: is in case Linux cons.saver is still neccessary ?

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