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- From: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: How do you download using (XYZ)MODEM protocol?
- Message-ID: <C0D5JI.1EB@biff.gbdata.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:23:42 GMT
- References: <C09JGB.BDE@griffin.cuc.ab.ca>
- Sender: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
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- In article <C09JGB.BDE@griffin.cuc.ab.ca> davor@griffin.cuc.ab.ca (Davor
- Barcan) writes:
- > I have a group called 'modem'. I make all the users that I want to have
- > access to the modem members of this group. I then set my ports with these
- > permissions:
- >
- > 0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp modem 11,224 Jan 2 21:49 /dev/cufa
- >
- > My kermit permissions are also NOT setuid uucp.
- >
- > If anyone has any comments on the "safety" of this setup, I'm all ears. :)
-
- This is how I setup my system, although my "modem" group is called "dialout."
- I haven't had any problems with it, although I am the only user here.
-
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