[MPlayer-users] Re: gmplayer and SUID

[Jonathan Rogers]

Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 21 July 2003, Juan C. Gallardo wrote:
> 
>>To be able to use mplayer fullscreen I had to set the SUID bit of the
>>program.
> 
> 
> Huh? That's nonsense. Both mplayer and gmplayer work perfectly without the
> SUID bit set.

Perhaps you should try RTFMing before blasting someone:

----------------------------from the docs-------------------------------
DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to 
bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. 
Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into 
the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only if 
you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in as 
root or by setting the SUID bit on the MPlayer executable (not recommended).
----------------------------from the docs-------------------------------

However, Juan didn't give enough detail and we don't know if he is using 
DGA.

Jonathan Rogers