Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with links browswer and permissions

[Burton Samograd <kruhft@kruhft.dyndns.org>]

I seem to have solved my own problem.  It turns out that the devices
/dev/gpmctl and /dev/gpmdata don't have the correct permissions for
non-privelidged users to access them.  After doing a

chown root.input /dev/gpm*
chmod g+rw /dev/gpmctl
chmod g+r /dev/gpmdata

it all seemed to work.  I also changed devfsd.conf to register those
devices with those permissions as well.  Any security people care to
comment on if that is the correct way i should be doing access control
(using the group and permissions given)?

burton


On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:04:58PM -0700, Burton Samograd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some problems with the links web browser.  I'm thinking
> it's a problem with permissions on the frame buffer or mouse since I
> get the following when i try and run it when it's not +s:
> 
> Could not initialize graphics driver fb:
> Cannot open GPM mouse.
> 
> I notice that links likes to grab onto the mouse and not let it go
> while it's running (very annoying since gpm becomes totally useless,
> even when links is running in text mode).  Any ideas on how to fix one
> or both of these problems?  
> 
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