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Patch to fix the issue

file_4949.txt (text/plain), 1002 bytes, created by Paul Cercueil on 2020-01-13 18:21:40 UTC

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Created: 2020-01-13 18:21:40 UTC

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>From 35baec8dbd0515dae21330a336db15144654139a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:40:48 +0200
>Subject: [PATCH 09/12] video/fbcon: Allow running as non-root
>
>The /dev/ttyX nodes obey the same rules as others, it's possible to use
>them as non-root users provided that the access rights bits are
>correctly set.
>
>Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>---
> src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbevents.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbevents.c b/src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbevents.c
>index 549a7ad81..2bb745809 100644
>--- a/src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbevents.c
>+++ b/src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbevents.c
>@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ int FB_OpenKeyboard(_THIS)
> 		}
> 		ioctl(tty0_fd, VT_OPENQRY, &current_vt);
> 		close(tty0_fd);
>-		if ( (geteuid() == 0) && (current_vt > 0) ) {
>+		if ( current_vt > 0 ) {
> 			for ( i=0; vcs[i] && (keyboard_fd < 0); ++i ) {
> 				char vtpath[12];
> 
>-- 
>2.24.1

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