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- From: d88-jwn@blofeld.nada.kth.se (Johan W}hlin)
- Subject: Re: Help with Kermit5A
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.074516.22414@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:45:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.160532.27527@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug25.004034.23206@engr.uark.edu>, tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples) writes:
- >
- >| I too was only able to run kermit as root until I changed all of my
- >| tty's to group "tty" (especially the serial port) and made the kermit
- >| binary sgid tty. I don't know if this was really needed but now any
- >| user can run kermit.
- >
- > Interesting. I have the serial ports set rw-rw-rw- (and /dev/tty) so
- >group shouldn't matter. If it does I might seriously think it was a bug.
- >All rw permissions should be created equal.
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- Kermit (as do almost all comm progs) also needs access to /usr/spool/uucp
- I have set all comm progs group uucp and sgid. Then rw access for group
- on all relevant files.
- /Johan
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- >
- >--
- >bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- > I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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