[Bug 234717] Re: Links browser requires suid in VGA mode

[Peter Garrett]

I attach a hack used in conjunction with the comments and code above.

This scriptlet enables 'xlinks2' (links2 -g) to run from a script (in my
case normally from bash menus), without X, with directfb, and without
using suid root on the links2 binary.

It requires having the user as a member of the group used as above. (Say tty, or video).
In Ubuntu Hardy for some reason the permissions on /dev/tty0 are changed during boot, presumably by configuration changes in some package that I have not identified. A work-around for this is to place this in /etc/rc.local :

chown root:video /dev/tty0  (if the group chosen is 'video')

The script uses a background loop and job control to return the user to
the parent menu on quit from xlinks2.

** Attachment added: "Wrapper to make links2 -g run from scripts without suid"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19959148/links2-watch

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Links browser requires suid in VGA mode
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