From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 00:19:59 +1000

Re: fb permissions

Alexander Larsson writes:

>  How shall i set the framebuffer permissions?
>  Currently they are:
>  crw-rw-r--   1 root     root      29,   0 Jul 20 22:11 /dev/fb0
>  
>  Which means i have to be root, but if i open it wider lots of people
>  might be able to read my screen.

I think you can just change the group (e.g. something like: 
"chgrp video /dev/fb*"), and put the users you want to access it into
that group.  (but I'm no UNIX user/group/permission expert though...)

Cheers,
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