cons.saver not suid root

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Jun 8 14:40:14 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> moin,
> 
> 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.

	Jakub



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