Re: xastir question... suid root?
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:27:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
Should Xastir not be suid root anyway if the soundmodem driver is to
be used? I guess this is a much more serious problem. Do you know any
way to circumvent it? I do have to use the soundcard as for the moment
I have nothing better (I'm also a newbie at packet/APRS).
Thanks,
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