From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 23:10:50 +1000

Re: generic monitor test result

Alexander Larsson writes:

>  > XF_FBDev as since forever run without being root on my linux/m68k fbdev ?
>  
>   Interesting... What permissions do you have for /dev/fb0 then?
>   World writable+readable? Seems like a security hole, but otherwise you must 
>  be root or member of some kind of framebuffer group to access it.
>  
>   How is this normally solved for m68k?

Probably the same as intel (at a guess), where 'X' is a small SUID-root
program which invokes the real X server, such as 'XF86_SVGA'.

Cheers,
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