[gentoo-dev] Problems with links browswer and permissions

[gentoo-dev] Problems with links browswer and permissions

[Burton Samograd]

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?  

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

[Burton Samograd]

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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