On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:47:19PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:38:53AM -0600, daybrown wrote: > > I understand that to change to 50 lines or whatever, that one need be root. > > is there a way to empower the app with that permission, that does not > > also empower any other root privileges? > > Yes, and not necessarily. You would make the game binary suid, and will > revoke the unneeded capabilities as soon as you'll start. And you'd use > something like svgatextmode, btw. ...or you could leave the game with ordinary permissions, and make svgatextmode suid root. Or you could use sudo to allow any user who would be running the game to run svgatextmode as root. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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