Re: [Plplot-devel] linuxvga driver

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > I cannot remember whether it was Maurice or Geoffrey who investigated this a
 > long time ago, but according to my memory of the results back then you
 > always need root in order to use this driver. Therefore, I have never run or
 > tested it.  If there is no way to get around this root-only limitation of
 > libsvga, I think this driver should be disabled in the interests of security.

:-).

/home/furnish> ll /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 
-rws--x--x    1 root     root      1773168 Jan 18  2001  /usr/bin/X11/XFree86*

The "no run-as-root software allowed" rule, would make for a text only
computing experience.

I think we should leave it in/available.  People can use it or not
based on their own policy decisions on their own machine.