Re: Writing AX.25 Server Progie

From: Curt Mills, WE7U (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 21:33:06 EET

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    On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:

    > Second, there's one snag in the Xastir build process that Curt didn't
    > mention. I am using the kernal ax.25 tools, and unless the xastir binary
    > is made suid root, it can't open the ax.25 connection. To solve that, as
    > root do "chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/xastir"

    Ahh, but I did mention it! Kind'a sort'a: "chmod 4555" does the
    same thing. You have to think in octal though...

    > (assuming that's where it's
    > installed). suid root is a security risk, but for the typical ham machine
    > it's probably an acceptable one, and is less dangerous that living your
    > life as root!

    Good points. Thanks for mentioning that! The Xastir's README.1ST
    file has a bit more on this topic and the pro's and con's. 

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Curt Mills, WE7U                    yerk.rlvm@packetvideo.com
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