On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ralph Bacolod wrote:
> I use fbi.
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:21:45AM -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote:
> > > Hi! I have a knoppix hd installed on a laptop. I want to view images in
> t
> > he
> > > console. I can view images as root. How can i do it as an ordinary user?
> I
> > > already added myself to group tty.
Hi, from man fbi you get:
COMMON PROBLEMS
fbi needs rw access to the framebuffer devices (/dev/fbN), i.e you (our your
admin) have to make sure fbi
can open the devices in rw mode. The IMHO most elegant way is to use
pam_console (see /etc/security/con
sole.perms) to chown the devices to the user logged in on the console. Another
way is to create some group,
chown the special files to that group and put the users which are allowed to
use the framebuffer device into
the group. You can also make the special files world writable, but be aware
of the security implications
this has. On a private box it might be fine to handle it this way througth.
fbi also needs access to the linux console (i.e. /dev/ttyN) for sane console
switch handling. That is obvi
ously no problem for console logins, but any kid of a pseudo tty (xterm, ssh,
screen, ...) will not work.
Oliver
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