From: James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:54:24 -0400 (EDT)

Re: generic monitor test result

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> Sven wrote:
> > what's the problem here ???
> > 
> > XF_FBDev as since forever run without being root on my linux/m68k fbdev ?
> > 
> > there must be something broken in your fbcon.
> 
> No, something is wrong with fbcon... If you allow anyone to access
> /dev/fb* they can log in remotely and read the console-contents!

The question is how can we change kgicon so you can run applications like
XF68_FBDev to not run as root without security holes.