From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (Jeff Epler) Subject: Re: Trouble with vgalib demo program Date: 8 Oct 1993 01:10:35 GMT
pdrap@ctp.com (Patrick Draper) writes:
>Hi,
>I've got a problem with the demo program that shows off the vgalib
>graphics routines.
>I can't use it unless I'm root. If I'm logged on as a user, then it
>gives me an error saying it can't use the device or something.
>I don't want to write graphics programs when I'm logged on as root, so
>what should I do?
When I asked this question several months ago, I got the answer that
one really must be root to do svgalib/vgalib program development.
This is a really big limitation as far as I'm concerned. If you
wanted to, you could merely do an su to root and then change the owner
to root and mode to suid, thus spending less time in root. But this
is still not too satisfactory...
Surely there is a better way.. Someone just has to make it up.
>Thanks,
Some help this is.