ircombine w/ setuid-root (fix/work-around?)

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William Sherman -Visualization (wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:19:37 -0600 (CST)

Okay, new topic related to high-performance SGI graphical systems,
but not specifically Performer:

Is there a patch, or someway around the bug that cause ircombine to
change the graphics settings only when root (or some s-u) is acutally
logged on, but not when a setuid-root (compiled) program is used to
exec ircombine?

We use our system in a couple of different display modes, for different
purposes, and we want our users to be able to change modes, without
giving them all the root password. Currently we have not found a way
to do this with ircombine -- not a problem with setmon on an RE2 system.

        Thanks,
        Bill

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