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Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?



On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Look at lincity. If I remember right it generates three packages:
> 
> main, svga and X11.
> 
> The svga and x11 package contain the binarie for svga and x11
> respectivly, while main contains all comon files. The lincity-svga
> is probaly setuid while the lincity-x11 is not.

That's what I've done from the get-go.

> If root doesn´t want anyone to play lxdoom-svga he won´t install it or
> copy it somewhere else or change its permissions. The normal setup
> should allow every user to play it.

Instead of this, though, which could be a problem, I included a script, based
on one in gnuplot, which will configure the suid bit-ness of lsdoom, the svgalib
executable.


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