Re: SUDO

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:10:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:47:54AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>  
> > Using sudo the way Jostein suggested is just as open to problems as
> > logging in as root is, and should be avoided at all costs. Sudo was made
> > to save the user from hassle, for example, to play Wesnoth I need to
> > have access to the SDL framebuffer, but since you need to have root
> > permissions to access it I granted myself permissions just to Wesnoth.
> > 
> > pobega	ALL=NOPASSWD	/usr/games/wesnoth
> > 
> > And aliased in my shell:
> > 
> > alias wesnoth	'sudo /usr/games/wesnoth'
> > 
> > So when I run `wesnoth`, the framebuffer is automagically started and
> > I'm granted root permissions just for this one operation.
> 
> 	2.	Find an alternative to the SDL framebuffer.  Perhaps 
> 		there's a permissions thing that could give members of 
> 		a 'gaming' group or something access to the SDL.  Then 
> 		the game could run under that normal user.
> 

This would be my choice. But like I said, I have no clue how to give a
user permissions to run the SDL framebuffer. None of the suggestions
have worked for me (At the moment I'm just using 

`startx /usr/bin/wesnoth -f`

To run the game.

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If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative
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restrict the use of these programs. 
 - Richard Stallman
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