Re: xastir question
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:02:23PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> I'm an xastir, packet and APRS newbie. I just installed xastir 1.1. A
> few quick questions. Should the files in /usr/share/xastir really be
> owned by root.root? How can a regular user use the auto-mapping
> features like this?
>
> An example: I chose Maps...Locate Map Feature... and typed in my home
> town name. It came back with errors.
/usr should not be writable by normal users. (Actually, it's allowed
to be mounted read-only, so even root can't write to it.)
If the auto-mapping feature needs to write into /usr/share/xastir,
it's buggy, so please file a bug report. The only places it could
write are /var (it would need special permissions, and this could
be a security hole), and $HOME.
What was the error message you saw?
regards,
Hamish
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