Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-04 Thread Dale E. Martin
Peter Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Make sure you check out the following link if you're going to set your > > Quake2 binary suid root (or run it as root.) I've set my firewall up > > to deal with the Quake2 exploit found here: > > http://www.insecure.org/sploits_remote.html > > Will d

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-04 Thread Peter Ludwig
Well I finally go the answer to my question (after exim rejected 42 messages I think I lost a _LOT_ of important mail about questions I had... On 2 Mar 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: > > Svgalib needs suid root permissions. To give the executable the proper > > permissions, execute `chmod u+s /usr/g

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 02-Mar-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > > Make sure you check out the following link if you're going to set your > > Quake2 binary suid root (or run it as root.) I've set my firewall up > > to deal with the Quake2 exploit found here: > > http://www.insecure.or

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Mar-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Svgalib needs suid root permissions. To give the executable the proper >> permissions, execute `chmod u+s /usr/games/squake.real` >> >> The executable in the .deb is not like this for security reasons. > > Mak

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Svgalib needs suid root permissions. To give the executable the proper > permissions, execute `chmod u+s /usr/games/squake.real` > > The executable in the .deb is not like this for security reasons. Make sure you check out the following link if you'r

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to > slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying > that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything > going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven