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

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Jim Durbin (durbin++at++ait.nrl.navy.mil)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:34:08 -0500 (EST)

We ended up changing permissions on ircombine and
/usr/gfx/ucode/dg4/cmb in order to allow everyone to execute ircombine
and read/write to /usr/gfx/ucode/dg4/cmb.

Once these changes have been made, ircombine is accessible to any and
all users of the system.

-Jim
         

William Sherman -Visualization writes:
| 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.

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