Re: svgalib

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

> problem: If I start the game squake as user, I get the message:
> 
> svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console.
> Exit -1
> 
> If I start this game as root then everythink is ok. But I don't like to
> start any game as root. Also few weeks ago there was no problem.

This was done intentionally. You could make it suid again, but you
just said thast you don't want to run it as root. ;-)

>From the Changelog:

quake (1.06-5) frozen; urgency=high

  * A security hole is known in squake which could allow users to get root
    if the program is installed suid. As a temporary fix until a fixed
    version is available, squake is no longer installed suid.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>  Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:50:06 -0400


...RickM...


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