Derrik Pates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > That's true for the install but not when the user is running the app, which > > is what I'm worried about. > > Surely, we don't need SUID just to display graphics? > > For the program that's using DGA to open and mmap() /dev/mem, it has to > be root. That's part of doing DGA. That's why it's called _direct_.
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