[Xastir] Re: Serial Port (ttyS0) problem

[Gerry Creager]

That's what you get for enabling SE Linux... I do the ugly method 
without complaint regularly.

gerry

Rodney Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:30:04 xastir-request at xastir.org wrote:
>> Or you can get *REALLY* barbaric and manually edit /etc/group
>>
>> Search for the uucp line - add your username to the list.
>>
>> Originally, it looks like:
>> uucp:x:14:uucp
>>
>> Make it look like:
>> uucp:x:14:uucp,name
>> Where 'name' is your username.
> 
> Not such a good idea - then Fedora complains that /etc/group and /etc/gshadow 
> don't match which can totally stuff things up. The same thing happens if you 
> manually edit /etc/passwd - the password file and the shadow password file 
> get out of sync which can cause authentication problems.
> 
> When using shadow passwords and groups it is always much safer to use the 
> tools provided that keep things properly in sync.
> 
> I know - I found out the hard way (by manually editing /etc/group...<grin>).

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