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

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Rémi Arnaud (remi++at++remi)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:04:20 -0800 (PST)

William Sherman -Visualization wrote:
>
> 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.

 You can use setmon on IR also, does it have the same problem than ircombine ?

>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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