Bug#17216: mc: `cons.saver' doesn't work

[Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>]

Package: mc
Version: 4.1.9-1

	When `mc' executes `/usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver', it returns
`No privileges' and doesn't work, because now it isn't set-uid.

	However, it doesn't need to be setuid on Debian GNU/Linux,
because normal users can now read and write /dev/vcs*.

Fix:
--- src/cons.saver.c.	Tue Jan 13 20:51:57 1998
+++ src/cons.saver.c	Tue Jan 13 20:54:06 1998
@@ -149,9 +149,11 @@
     char *msg;
     int  xlen;
     
+#if 0
     /* Root privileges required */
     if (geteuid () != 0)
 	return "No privileges";
+#endif
 
     /* Must be console */
     /* Handle the case for /dev/tty?? */

-- 
Juan Cespedes


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