From owner-cvs-ports Wed Dec 11 11:26:47 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA01411 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:26:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [193.125.152.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA01402; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:26:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA14247 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:21:09 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Wed, 11 Dec 96 23:21:08 +0400 Received: from localhost (nagual.ru [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.ru (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA01521; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 22:19:37 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 22:19:37 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?Andrey_Chernov=2C_=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= To: Paul Traina Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/kermit/patches patch-ab In-Reply-To: <199612111647.IAA24727@precipice.shockwave.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Paul Traina wrote: > I thought about that too. If you don't need to access the tty ports, you > don't need to access the lock directory. They'll just fail, warn, and go > on. > > Thus my conclusion, if you want kermit usable by everyone, then you make > it setgid. If you want to make it usable by only folks in dialer, you don't. > Either way, it's more flexible to not change out the kermit security model. Ok, I agree, not setgid kermit is better way. I'll commit needed changes ASAP. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/