Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-04 Thread Peter Ludwig
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

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-04 Thread Dale E. Martin
Peter Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven't

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Mar-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 02-Mar-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: 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: