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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ihz.compuserve.com!mfoley From: mfoley@csi.compuserve.com (M Foley) Subject: Re: Installing kermit, suid uucp? Message-ID: <CCn4A6.BoC@csi.compuserve.com> Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 20:15:41 GMT Lines: 13 In article <1993Aug31.182541.15945@kth.se> Johan W writes: >Compiling kermit 5A-(182) went without problems using bsd44 as target. >The problem I have is installing it. To be able to access tty0* it needs to >be suid uucp; but suid uucp it cannot access /dev/tty and therefore the >terminal gets confused. Everything works ok with tty0* made writable by >everyone but it shouldn't be like that should it? That's the way I do it. I leave the modem port writable by everyone (why not, it's a modem!), and I don't have any special suid priv. on my kermit executable. That seems much more dangerous.