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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:16:32 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (Andrew MacIntyre)
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: query wrt c-kermit-5a-190 port
Message-ID:  <199604072216.CAA01747@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.91.960407184424.4656A-100000@CENTRAL> from "Andrew MacIntyre" at "Apr 7, 96 07:00:13 pm"

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> I have a query with regards to the above port, as part of the 2.1 ports 
> collection.
> 
> In the last set of patches in patchfile patch-aa distributed on the 2.1 
> CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, to function priv_opn, the calls to priv_on() 
> and priv_off() are disabled for FreeBSD.  The patches concerned are to 
> lines 8069-8077 of ckutio.c.
> 
> With these two calls disabled as per the distributed patches, attempting 
> to SET LINE to /dev/cuaa* from kermit as built from the ports facility 
> results in "access denied", which is baffling as the kermit binary as 
> installed is setgid to dialer, matching the devices.

Correct way is not to make kermit your security hole, but put
needed user into dialer group.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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