Re: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd)

Marko Sepp (sepp.marko@hkol.fi)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:12:27 +0200 (GFT Standard Time)


At 12:07 11.2.1997 +0100, you wrote:
>Solitude <solitude@johnf.reshall.ksu.edu> wrote:
>> also a framebuffer version of xdoom. (That's the case in quake) sdoom
>> uses svgalib and requires that suid root is set. xdoom works w/o suid.
>> svgalib sucks anyway...
>
>svgalib programs do _not_ require to be run as root or setuid.
>See <URL:http://www.inka.de/~bigred/sw/ioperm.txt>
>(this is nearly three years old, btw.)
>

If this is true, why is it on a private web page, and not IN THE DOCUMENTATION,
as important as it is !!!!

Marko