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Re: Quake No longer running for users



Well I finally go the answer to my question (after exim rejected 42
messages I think I lost a _LOT_ of important mail about questions I had...

On 2 Mar 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> > Svgalib needs suid root permissions. To give the executable the proper
> > permissions, execute `chmod u+s /usr/games/squake.real`
> > 
> > The executable in the .deb is not like this for security reasons.
> 
> Make sure you check out the following link if you're going to set your
> Quake2 binary suid root (or run it as root.)  I've set my firewall up 
> to deal with the Quake2 exploit found here:
> http://www.insecure.org/sploits_remote.html

Will do so, when I get Quake 2 :)  Am Running Quake 1 :)

Catch ya


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