Re: no more root
Michael Bernstein (michael.bernstein@yale.edu)
Sat, 07 Nov 1998 10:09:53 -0500
> I'm trying to get away from being root but it seems like so many things
> like quake 2 need room access. I hate to think I could just do one rm -rf
> wrong and have to reinstall.
Why can't you make Quake 2 setuid or something? Granted I haven't played the
game, but certainly one runs X-Windows without being root, and I can't imagine
that Quake 2 is much more demanding than X-Windows in terms of necessary OS
privileges.
- MIke