Re: Thanks

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Bruce: Acidwarp is a silly graphics program.  Think of it as a command line
> screen saver.  I attached it to this message.  I got it from my instructor
> at school.  I believe its released under GPL so I don't think that there is
> any problem sending this out.
> 
> Regarding making SUID, I do have a program called sus on my machine.  I
> believe it does something similar.  It is ok for a home p.c. I would never
> use it in a work environment.

The program is aborting from a call to ioperm(2) which requires root 
privileges.  I don't of any easy way to fix that problem.   :(

Making the program SUID-root allows it to be from a virtual console
as a normal user, but does not allow it to be run under X.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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