[Xastir] bootstrap.sh

[Stephen West-Fisher]

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Raymond Quinn wrote:
> 
> 
>>The first time, I made and installed as ROOT. This time, I am using a user
>>other than ROOT. I remember someone mentioning permissions with
>>/dev/ttyS1(mouse on /dev/ttyS0) with users other than ROOT. If I am correct,
>>what is required to resolve this?
> 
> 
> Read the stuff in the INSTALL file about it.  What I like to do is
> install it SUID root by typing "chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir"
> after I install Xastir (type that command as root).  That lets Xastir
> run as root when it needs to, but it drops priviledges down to normal
> user priviledges the rest of the time.
> 

A little less drastic is to chgrp whatever-group-owns-your-ports xastir 
then chmod 2555 xastir.

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Stephen West-Fisher
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