From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 7 15:40:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA09579 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA09560 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA20878 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:30:16 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 8 Apr 96 01:30:16 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA01747; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:16:32 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199604072216.CAA01747@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: query wrt c-kermit-5a-190 port To: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (Andrew MacIntyre) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:16:32 +0400 (MSD) Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew MacIntyre" at "Apr 7, 96 07:00:13 pm" From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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