[Xastir] Re: Serial Port (ttyS0) problem

[Tate Belden]

Ah!! You called it.

SE disabled routinely on all my boxen.

Good catch!!
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Gerry Creager wrote:
> 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>).
>