Re: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd)

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
11 Feb 1997 12:07:13 +0100


Solitude <solitude@johnf.reshall.ksu.edu> wrote:
> also a framebuffer version of xdoom. (That's the case in quake) sdoom
> uses svgalib and requires that suid root is set. xdoom works w/o suid.
> svgalib sucks anyway...

svgalib programs do _not_ require to be run as root or setuid.
See <URL:http://www.inka.de/~bigred/sw/ioperm.txt>
(this is nearly three years old, btw.)

olaf

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