From: gt2584a@prism.gatech.EDU (Dante) Subject: Re: Trouble with vgalib demo program Date: 8 Oct 1993 13:17:15 GMT
pdrap@ctp.com (Patrick Draper) writes:
>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?
>
The documentation that comes with it says that vgatest
must be setuid root. To do this, type (as root)
'chmod 4755 vgatest'
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