[Xastir] AX25 interfacing

[Lance Cotton]

Xastir needs to be set SUID so that it can open an ax.25 socket.

try a `chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir` first

-Lance KJ5O

Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up Xastir to use an AX25 interface and for
> some reason I get this when I try to connect to it:
> 
> sbrown at onyxia:~$ socket: Operation not permitted
> Sun Mar 04 12:12:27 EST 2007:
>        Interface Error!  Error opening interface 1 Hard Fail
> 
> I am running Ubuntu 6.06 and trying to use this port as an AXIP link to
> another machine. I have the port defined in AXPORTS, and kissattached it to
> /dev/ptyp0 with no issues.
> 
> Thinking this might have been a permissions issue, I started up Xastir 
> using
> sudo and sure enough it worked as intended. I also looked at the 
> permissions
> for the pty port:
> 
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 0 2007-02-24 19:51 /dev/ptyp0
> 
> Looking at that should tell me that it should work as my normal user, but
> that doesn't appear to be the case. I also added my username (sbrown) to 
> the
> root and tty group under /etc/group.
> 
> Any clue why this won't work as a normal user? I'm sure it's a permissions
> issue somewhere, but I haven't quite pinpointed it yet.......
> 
> 73's
> Stephen
> N1VLV
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