mephdbo%prism@gatech.edu (d. majumder) (03/01/89)
Is there any way to prevent people not logged onto the console to execute screenload with rasterfiles. Some people's silly behaviour do cause a lot of irritation among others. Thanx Deeptendu Majumder | :-) mephdbo@prism.gatech.edu Box 30963 | :-< mephdbo@hydra.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology | 8-> meibmdm@gitvm2.bitnet Atlanta, GA 30332 | --------------------------------| (404) 892-6650 (H) (404) 894-2262 (O) [[ You could try to prevent all remote logins, but that might be a bit drastic. It would be nice if the frame buffer device was only accessible by the person logged on to the console. How about a set-uid program that changes the ownership on the appropriate devices to the person logged on the console (runnable from the console only, of course)? It could also chmod the devices to be 600. Then no one else could open it. I'll have to give that a try. It might have the unfortunate side effect of breaking other set-uid tools (such as games). I just now thought about this, so I have no idea if it would actually work (and I don't have time right now to actually try it). --wnl ]]