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Bug#933810: ax25-apps: axlisten should never be setuid



Package: ax25-apps
Version: 0.0.8-rc4-2+b1
Severity: minor

Hi,

ax25-apps is only built for Linux because this is the only kernel with
AX.25 support. Linux also has filesystem capabilities and we can use
this instead of setuid for the axlisten binary to allow operation by
non-root users. We're already doing this for Xastir.

Perhaps we should actually get a static gid for this, because they're
all apps that want to use AX.25 applications. Otherwise we'll end up
with a load of dynamic groups.

Thanks,
Iain.


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