On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more, > > making the whole thing sort of pointless. > > the attached patch makes it useful for me. > > comments? > > cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should be setuid to whatever > user owns /dev/vcsa* devices. Ideally there is a vcsa user that > just owns these devices and cons.saver. > yes, i'm aware of this. anyway, we have no portable (even across linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than root. actually, this is what many other programs do. and if packagers can do better, i won't complain. i just want something that works out of the box.
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