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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 5.05 - setuid and setgrp errors
Date: 9 Nov 1999 17:23:49 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <19991109110000.16565.00003490@ng-fn1.aol.com>,
StevenHill <stevenhill@aol.com> wrote:
: >What version of C-Kermit is it? What kind of connection are you trying to
: >make (dialed? network?).
:
: It is a dialed connection, and we are using 6.0.192, 6 Sep 96 for SCO Open
: Server R5 according to the message that comes up when Kermit is started from
: the system prompt. We have many accounts using this same set up and working
: fine. As stated before, the only difference (besides data <g>) between the
: set ups is that this account is set up with the drive segmented off into a
: number of partitions and our application does not reside on the root
: partition, it is in a directory that is what the hardware people are calling
: a virtual link to where the application really is. (Our application depends
: on it residing in a particular directory, although that is changing with the
: next release)
:
: I hope this information will allow you to help me with the question of
: getting setuid and setgid (setgrp?) errors. These errors only happen if we
: execute Kermit from our application, and only on this particular system. If
: you could tell me what causes Kermit to execute these functions, then I
: might know what we can do to stop them from being called. It seems that they
: are not called if we run it from the command line. (no errors anyway, and
: Kermit has only rwxrwxrwx permissions, no rws permissions, although we tried
: setting the permissions to rwsrwsrwx and it made no difference)
:
Again, the different options for giving Kermit access to the dialout device
are explained in the documentation. If the suid/sgid method doesn't work
for some reason, then you either have to figure out why (read the
documentation to see all the things that can go wrong) and fix it, or else
open up the lockfile directory and dialout device so suid/sgid is not
needed in the first place.
: Oh yes, we are supplied a binary and our vendor says that they do not have
: the source either, so I quess it was acquired in binary format, not source.
:
This will sound mean, but then isn't this your vendor's problem? There's no
way on earth I can know what your vendor did. Presumably your vendor licensed
C-Kermit from us according to the terms and conditions at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/commercial.html
and if they did this, they know it is their responsibility to support their
customers (like you), and our responsibility to support them. So in this
case, they should contact us instead of you, since they know what they did,
but you don't and neither do I.
If they did not license it, they should have.
- Frank