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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