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

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:14:03 -0800

On Dec 18, 5:04pm, Rémi Arnaud wrote:
> Subject: Re: ircombine w/ setuid-root (fix/work-around?)
> 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
?
>

Don't use setmon on iR.

I've only had problems with it. Some of which are very difficult to recover
from.

Cheers,Angus.

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