On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, David Morris wrote: > My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing > to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos > games who it is very hard to say 'no' to). > > I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based program and > have tried to get it to run in graphics mode so the games are more > accessible. > > However, as a normal user I can't get it. If I try to run vgaon it kicks > out an error: CAN'T DO VIDEO INIT, BIOS NOT MAPPED. > > As root from a console I can get the graphics with no problem. I hate to > teach my daughters how to gain root access on my computer though just to > run a couple games. > > What can I change to all my normal user account to access the video?
You could do put all users who are allowed to run dosemu in a separate group, e.g. 'dos': # addgroup dos # adduser me dos # adduser daughter dos Then, make /usr/bin/dos setuid root and executeable only by group 'dos': # chown root.dos /usr/bin/dos # chmod 450 /usr/bin/dos Now, only users in group 'dos' can run dosemu and it will run as root. Also, you will need to configure dosemu to use your video card. /etc/dosemu/conf explains itself. Remco -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
